Designing Social Research - 9781509517404

Designing Social ResearchThe Logic of Anticipation\nAuthor(s): Norman Blaikie, Jan Priest\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509517404, 978-1509517404\nSynopsis\nDesigning Social Researchis a uniquely comprehensive and student-friendly guide to the core knowledge and types of skills required for planning social research. The authors organize the book around four major steps in social research focusing, framing, selecting and distilling placing particular emphasis on the formulation of research questions and the choice of appropriate 'logics of inquiry' to answer them. The requirements for research designs and proposals are laid out at the beginning of the book,followed by a discussion of key design issues and research ethics. Four sample research designs on environmental issues illustrate the role of research questions and the application of the four logics of inquiry, and this third edition includes new mater.