Social Research Methods 4th Edition

Written in an engaging style, this up-to-date text in its Fourth Edition provides a thorough treatment of research methodology for social sciences. It offers an interdisciplinary methodological balance between experimental and nonexperimental methods and includes self-contained coverage of basic statistics. In addition, it summarizes various validity types and their assessment and shows how literature reviews can help in drawing appropriate conclusions from several studies. New Added to this Edition o Includes ‘web sites’ section in each chapter to suggest useful sites related to the subject matter. o Provides a hundred new references. o Provides nonmathematical and intuitive graphical displays such as the “stem-and-leaf� and “box-and-whiskers�. o Provides instructors with the current ethical guidelines for major research associations.