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Research in Practice
Applied methods for the social sciences
M TERRE BLANCHE, K DURRHEIM & D PAINTER
Research in Practice: Applied Methods for the Social Sciences incorporates new trends in research methodology while also providing comprehensive coverage of the full range of established research approaches and techniques.
CONTENTS
Theresearchprocess
• Historiesofthepresent:Socialscience
research in context
• Doinganinformationsearch
• Research design
• Ethicalissuesinsocialscienceresearch
• Puttingdesignintopractice:Writingand Researchinappliedcontexts
978 1 48510 268 7 978 1 48510 458 2 2e 2006
708 PAGES
ZAR R685.00 ZAR R640.00
The balancing act in qualitative analysis • Callingitaday:Reachingconclusions
• Firststepsinqualitativedataanalysis • Livedexperienceandinterpretation:
in qualitative research
JUTA RESEARCH CATALOGUE | 2018/2019
evaluating research proposals
• Publish or perish: Disseminating your
research findings
Quantitative research techniques
• Collecting quantitative data: Sampling
and measuring
• Generating quantitative data
• Evaluating research design
• Basic quantitative analysis
• Jumping to conclusions: An overview of
inferential statistical methods
• Multivariate data analysis
Qualitative research techniques
• Whyqualitativeresearch?
• Fromencountertotext:Collectingdata
in qualitative research
KEY FEATURES
• Jobs and careers in social science research
• Programme evaluation
• Participatoryactionresearch:A
practical guide for realistic radicals
• Researching public policy
• Research methods in clinical research • Assessment research
• Standpoint methodologies: Marxist,
feminist, and black scholarship
perspectives
• Postmodernism: A critical practice? • Postcolonial African methods and
interpretation
• Lively text which incorporates new trends
• Richly supplemented by photographs, real-life examples, case studies, tips and
checklists, illustrative boxes and exercises
• Written by more than forty researchers from across the South African research
spectrum
• A strong emphasis on practical examples drawn from the southern African
experience
• Thorough overviews of qualitative and quantitative research approaches
• Entire section devoted to research in applied settings
• Structured to facilitate systematic study of each phase of the research process
in sequence
• Aims to ground research methodology in terms of practical outcomes,
and to equip students with applied technical know-how and conceptual tools to evaluate and contextualise their work in terms of larger social and philosophical issues.
SUITABLE FOR
• Undergraduate and postgraduate students in various social science disciplines
• Students of psychology, sociology, anthropology and applied fields of social work, nursing and occupational therapy
• New and practising researchers.
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