Research Methods and Analysis: Searching for Relationships

Introduction : The Quest For Understanding -- Seeing Our Environment With Concepts And Variables -- What Are We Searching For : Relationships -- Detecting Relationships With Percentages -- Beginning The Search For Relationships : The Frist Step In Exploring A Relationship -- The Ethics Of Research On Human Subjects -- Organizing And Summarizing Our Observations -- Computer Use -- Making Observations And Coming To Conclusions : The Experiment -- The Omnipresent Survery -- Measuring And Accounting For Other Variables -- Other Research Designs -- Measures Of Association -- Questioning Our Conclusions : Reliability And Validity -- Sampling -- Formal Test Of The Existence Of A Relationship -- Finishing Touches : Reading And Evaluating Research Publication : The Never-ending Process. Michael H. Walizer, Paul L. Wienir. Includes Bibliographies And Index.