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„Maruyama and Ryan have produced an outstanding textbookvery useful to the advanced scholar and yet accessible to thenovice. The volume is sophisticated in its epistemology but easilyread and understood. An excellent source for anyone who wants toknow how to do research in the social sciences.“ ProfessorFaye Crosby, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University ofCalifornia, Santa Cruz
„This impressive and comprehensive volume is unparalleledin its ability to make sophisticated concepts and rigorousscientific methods accessible and easy to understand.“ Dr. Linda R Tropp, Director, Psychology of Peace and Violence Program, University of Massachusetts
Research Methods in Social Relations, 8th Edition, features a series of updates and revisions in its comprehensiveintroduction to current research methods in the social andbehavioural sciences.
* Offers comprehensive coverage of a wide variety of traditionaland topical research methods
* Addresses many newer research approaches such as propensityscore matching, mixed methods designs, and confirmatory factoranalysis
* Written to be accessible to a range of social and behaviouralscience disciplines, including public health, political science, sociology, and psychology
* Includes new chapters that engage readers in critical thinkingabout the processes involved in building sustainable partnershipsin field and community settings
* The Companion website includes an array of resources forInstructors, including Test Banks, Power Point lecture slides, discussion questions and exercises
* This new edition is the much-anticipated follow-up to2001's seventh edition by Hoyle, Harris and Judd
* Offers comprehensive coverage of a wide variety of traditionaland topical research methods
* Addresses many newer research approaches such as propensityscore matching, mixed methods designs, and confirmatory factoranalysis
* Written to be accessible to a range of social and behaviouralscience disciplines, including public health, political science, sociology, and psychology
* Includes new chapters that engage readers in critical thinkingabout the processes involved in building sustainable partnershipsin field and community settings
* The Companion website includes an array of resources forInstructors, including Test Banks, Power Point lecture slides, discussion questions and exercises
* This new edition is the much-anticipated follow-up to2001's seventh edition by Hoyle, Harris and Judd