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2nd ed. |
| Description |
xxviii, 723 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 705-713) and index. |
| Contents |
An Introduction to Inquiry -- Scientific Inquiry and Social Work -- Two Realities -- Natural Human Inquiry -- Errors in Personal Inquiry -- Philosophical Issues in Science and Research -- The Scientific Method -- What's Really Real? -- Paradigms -- Determinism, Probability, and Causation -- Quantitative and Qualitative Methods of Inquiry -- Objectivity and Subjectivity in Scientific Inquiry -- Theory and Research -- Two Logical Systems -- The Links Between Theory and Research -- Social Work Practice Models -- The Ethics and Politics of Social Work Research -- Ethical Issues in Social Work Research -- Weighing Benefits and Costs -- NASW Code of Ethics -- Four Ethical Controversies -- Institutional Review Boards -- Bias and Insensitivity Regarding Gender and Culture -- The Politics of Social Work Research -- Problem Formulation and Measurement -- Problem Formulation -- Overview of the Research Process -- The Research Proposal -- Problem Identification -- Purposes of Research -- The Time Dimension -- Units of Analysis -- Answers to Units of Analysis Exercise -- Conceptualization and Operationalization -- Conceptual Explication -- Operational Definitions -- Measuring Anything That Exists -- Definitions and Research Purposes -- Operationalization Choices -- Some Operationalization Illustrations -- Operationalization Goes On and On -- More Examples of Operationalization in Social Work -- Existing Scales -- Measurement -- Levels of Measurement -- Single or Composite Indicators -- Common Sources of Measurement Error. |
| Subject |
Social service -- Research -- Methodology.
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Social service -- Research -- Methodology.
(OCoLC)fst01123274
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Wetenschappelijke technieken.
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Sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek.
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Onderzoeksmethoden.
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Maatschappelijk werk.
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Sociale dienstverlening.
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Research.
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| Added Author |
Babbie, Earl R.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Rubin, Allen. Research methods for social work. 2nd ed. Pacific Grove, Calif. : Brooks/Cole, ©1993 (OCoLC)622659654 |
| ISBN |
0534174787 |
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9780534174781 |
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