The Research Imagination Paperback: An Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Methods - Softcover

Gray, Paul S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052170555X ISBN 13: 9780521705554

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Qualitative and quantitative research methods are explored thoroughly in this resource for instructors and students of sociology.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Professor Paul S. Gray (BA Princeton, MA Education, Stanford) received his Ph.D. from Yale University and has taught at Boston College for 32 years. In addition to teaching, Gray also works as a business consultant specializing in leadership development and corporate citizenship. Gray is the Faculty Chair of Leadership for Change associated with Boston College's Carroll School of Management. Gray has conducted research on topics as diverse as higher education in Massachusetts and labor unions in Africa. His research has been published in Symbolic Interaction, Industrial Relations, and the Journal of African Studies.

Professor John B. Williamson (BS Humanities and Science, MIT, Ph.D. Social Psychology, Harvard University) has taught at Boston College since 1969. He has written or co-written 15 books and over 100 journal articles and book chapters, and his writing has appeared in the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, Social Problems, Social Forces, Demography, the International Social Security Review, the Gerontologist, the Journal of Aging Studies, the International Journal of Aging and Human Development, the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, and Sociological Quarterly. He is on the board of multiple journals and societies related to the study of sociology and aging. His current research concerns the comparative international study of social security systems.

Professor David A. Karp (BA Harvard, Ph.D. New York University) has taught sociology at Boston College for 30 years. Karp's 1996 work, Speaking of Sadness was the 1996 winner of the Charles Horton Cooley Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. His most recent research uses qualitative methods to explore the moral boundaries of caring in emotional illness and conflict, and seeks to discover the cultural resources people draw upon when confronted with this dilemma.

Professor John R. Dalphin received his undergraduate degree from Holy Cross College and both his MA and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has taught at Merrimack College for over 30 years, teaching courses in population problems, research methodology, social class, and social inequality. He is also the author of a book on the perpetuation of class inequality entitled The Persistence of Social Inequality in America. Professor Dalphin is a member of the American Sociological Association and the New England Sociological Association.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 052170555X
• ISBN 13: 9780521705554
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 478
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