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Social Research

Hardcover • 2016 • 1. edition

Social Research

By Norman Blaikie, Jan Priest

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This unique book explains the central role that research paradigms play in the design and conduct of social research. The authors argue that social research should not just describe or confirm a social problem but should seek to find an explanation for it and to do so requires research with 'eyes philosophically wide open'. Important philosophical and practice elements of three widely recognized paradigms Neo-Positive, Interpretive and Critical Realist are carefully elaborated and their use in a...Show more

Social research and statistics

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ISBN

9780745671840

Publisher

Polity Press

Published year

2016

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Social Research

Format

Hardcover

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