For many students, doing research is often a joyless struggle. This book provides practical advice on how to do research in a concise way. It uses classic examples to show how experts conduct their research in different fields, allowing this book to be used in different disciplines. Research Methods: A Practical Guide for Students and Researchers provides a practical guide to students and resea…
"Suppose you were given two qualitative studies and were told that one of them is a piece of empirically sound social science and the other, though interesting and beautifully written, is not. What criteria would you use to tell the difference? Each of the hundreds of ethnographic and interview studies published yearly on inequality, poverty, education, public health, immigration, the family, c…
Buku ini menyajikan metode yang khas tentang cermin estetis. Yang dimaksud khas, mulai dari pengumpulan data sampai analisis, diskenario secara sosiologis. Penelitian sosiologi sastra, memang sebaiknya tidak menggunakan metode umum. Buku ini menyediakan alternatif pemikiran metode-metode termaksud, agar peneliti benar-benar akrab dengan sosiologi sastra. Tiap karya sastra yang lahir dalam bentu…
This book provides a clear and straightforward guide for all those seeking to conduct quantitative research in the field of education, using primary research data samples. While positioned as less powerful and somehow inferior, non-parametric tests can be very useful where the research can only be designed to accommodate data structure which is ordinal, or scale but violates a normality assumpt…
"The eagerly anticipated Fourth Edition of the title that pioneered the comparison of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research design is here! For all three approaches, Creswell includes a preliminary consideration of philosophical assumptions, a review of the literature, an assessment of the use of theory in research approaches, and reflections about the importance of writing and …