a beginner's guide to doing a research project Flick, Uwe 1956- creator text New Delhi Sage Publications 2012 monographic xx,271p. ill. 24cm(pbk) 'Introducing Research Methodology' gives readers the fundamental data collection and analysis skills that they need for their first project, as well as a good understanding of the research process as a whole. PART ONE: ORIENTATION -- Why Social Research? -- From Research Idea to Research Question -- Reading and Reviewing the Literature -- PART TWO: PLANNING AND DESIGN -- Planning Social Research: Steps of the Research Process -- Designing Social Research -- Deciding Your Methods -- PART THREE: WORKING WITH DATA -- Gathering Data: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches -- Analyzing Quantitative and Qualitative Data -- E-Research: Doing Social Research Online -- Integrated Social Research: Combination of Different Approaches -- PART FOUR: REFLECTION AND WRITING -- What Is Good Research? Evaluating Your Research Project -- Ethical Issues in Social Research -- Writing Research and Using Results by Uwe Flick Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-263) and index. Originally published in German: Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt Verlag, c2009, under title: Sozialforschung : Methoden und Anwendungen. Social sciences Research Research Methodology 001.42 under title: 9788132110330 ENG-106747 DBAD/PUB BSB/ven 20130923142341.0