Social Research Methods by H Russell Bernard

Social Research Methods by H Russell Bernard

H Russell Bernard, author of the bestselling textbook Research Methods in Anthropology and a world figure in the social sciences, brings to the researcher and the student, the excitement of the research act as never before. The author follows two chapters on the fundamentals of social science and social research by three on preparation, two on interviewing, one on scaling, and two on relative advantages and methods of participative, direct and indirect observation. Six further chapters take the student from the basics of analysis by way of methods for analyzing qualitative data to those for quantitative data analysis, culminating in multivariate analysis, which the author identifies as the key to the most interesting social research of all. Each chapter concludes with key concepts, a summary, exercises and further readings.

"For an answer to almost every question in getting started on a particular topic in research methodology, 'Read Bernard!" -- Charles Kadushin 20010416 "Social Research Methods shows that a book on research methods can incorporate comprehensiveness, sophistication, and clear writingThis book conveniently packages nearly everything one needs to know or think about before or while carrying out social and behavioral research." -- W. P enn Handwerker "A thorough, well-written text that rivals Babbie. The examples are exemplary, and it contains a strong treatment of qualitative methodologies. I think that both you and your students will enjoy the text. I would highly recommend it." -- Thomas A. Petee

H. Russell Bernard is Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus at the University of Florida. He served as editor of the American Anthropologist and Human Organization. He is co-founder (with Pertti Pelto and Stephen Borgatti) of the Cultural Anthropology Methods journal (1989), which became Field Methods in 1999. The five editions of his methods text Research Methods in Anthropology (AltaMira 2006) and his general research methods text Social Research Methods (Sage 2012), have been used by tens of thousands of students. Bernard co-founded (with Pelto) and co-directed (with Pelto and Borgatti) the National Science Foundation's Institute on Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology and has done fieldwork in Greece, Mexico, and the U.S.A. His publications include (with Jesus Salinas Pedraza) Native Ethnography: A Otomi Indian Describes His Culture (Sage, 1989). Bernard is known as well for his work, with Peter Killworth, Eugene Johnsen, Christopher McCarty, and Gene A. Shelley, on network analysis, including work on the network scale-up method for estimating hard-to-count populations. In 2010, Bernard was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

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ISBN 13	9780761914037
ISBN 10	076191403X
Title	Social Research Methods
Author	H Russell Bernard
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	SAGE Publications Inc
Year published	1999-12-21
Number of pages	784
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