Real World Research, 4th Edition

Häftad bok. John Wiley & Sons. 1 uppl. 2015. 512 sidor.

Nyskick. PRESENTSKICK. Engelska.
REAL WORLD RESEARCH is a major responsibility for professionals and practitioners in a wide range of both publiuc and private settings. REAL WORL RESEARCH has been cited in journal publications from a wide range of fields including business and management, computer science, criminology, development studies, economics, education, engineering, environmental studies, film studies, geography, health, psychology, social work and sociology.
REAL WORLD RESEARCH provides a clear route-map of the various steps needed to carry out a piece of applied research to a high, professional standard. It is accessible to those without a social sience background while providing rigorous and fully up-to-date coverage of contemporary issues and debates. It brings together materials and approaches from different social science disciplines, recognizing value in bopth quantiative and qualitative approaches, as well as their combination in mixed-method designs.
Thoroughly revised and updated throughout, the fourth edition now includes:
• New chapter on desk-based research projects and literature reveiws.
• New discussions on the impact of research and its impact – incorporating research examples from forensic psychology, criminology, politics and social policy to futher evidence the use, and transferability, of social research methods across disciplines.
• Research methods training and future research – stressing the value of developing expertise in carrying out research projects, and in evaluating the research of others, for many careers and other aspects of social life.