Intelligent research design a guide for beginning researchers in the social sciences - Hancké, Bob 1962- (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references ((pages 138-142)) and index
PREFACE; LIST OF TABLES; Introduction; 1 Research in the Social Sciences; 2 Constructing a Research Design; 3 Constructing Case Studies and Comparisons; 4 Constructing Data; 5 Writing Up Your Research; 6 For the Road; Appendix: Participating in the Profession; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
This book offers advice to doctoral researchers and graduate and advanced undergraduate students on how to embark on their research. Based on a decade of teaching early-stage researchers in the social sciences at the LSE and other universities, and written with the central problems of beginning researchers in mind, Bob Hanck--eacute--; guides them through the process of thinking about the links between theory, cases and data, and to do so in a way that helps to turn their initialplausible ideas into convincing arguments. This lively book, deliberately jargon-free and with a hands-on, pragmatic