Research methods for social work /
Rubin, Allen.
Research methods for social work / Allen Rubin, Earl Babbie. - 3rd ed. - Pacific Grove : Brooks/Cole Pub. Co., c1997. - 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
An Introduction to Inquiry --
Scientific Inquiry and Social Work --
Two Realities --
Natural Human Inquiry --
Errors in Personal Inquiry --
Philosophical Issues in Science and Research --
The Scientific Method --
What's Really Real? --
Paradigms --
Determinism, Probability, and Causation --
Quantitative and Qualitative Methods of Inquiry --
Objectivity and Subjectivity in Scientific Inquiry --
Theory and Research --
Two Logical Systems --
The Links Between Theory and Research --
Social Work Practice Models --
The Ethics and Politics of Social Work Research --
Ethical Issues in Social Work Research --
Weighing Benefits and Costs --
NASW Code of Ethics --
Four Ethical Controversies --
Institutional Review Boards --
Bias and Insensitivity Regarding Gender and Culture --
The Politics of Social Work Research --
Problem Formulation and Measurement --
Problem Formulation --
Overview of the Research Process --
The Research Proposal --
Problem Identification --
Purposes of Research --
The Time Dimension --
Units of Analysis --
Answers to Units of Analysis Exercise --
Conceptualization and Operationalization --
Conceptual Explication --
Operational Definitions --
Measuring Anything That Exists --
Definitions and Research Purposes --
Operationalization Choices --
Some Operationalization Illustrations --
Operationalization Goes On and On --
More Examples of Operationalization in Social Work --
Existing Scales --
Measurement --
Levels of Measurement --
Single or Composite Indicators --
Common Sources of Measurement Error.
0534263887 (acidfree paper) 9780534263881
Social service--Research--Methodology.
HV11 / .R84
Research methods for social work / Allen Rubin, Earl Babbie. - 3rd ed. - Pacific Grove : Brooks/Cole Pub. Co., c1997. - 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
An Introduction to Inquiry --
Scientific Inquiry and Social Work --
Two Realities --
Natural Human Inquiry --
Errors in Personal Inquiry --
Philosophical Issues in Science and Research --
The Scientific Method --
What's Really Real? --
Paradigms --
Determinism, Probability, and Causation --
Quantitative and Qualitative Methods of Inquiry --
Objectivity and Subjectivity in Scientific Inquiry --
Theory and Research --
Two Logical Systems --
The Links Between Theory and Research --
Social Work Practice Models --
The Ethics and Politics of Social Work Research --
Ethical Issues in Social Work Research --
Weighing Benefits and Costs --
NASW Code of Ethics --
Four Ethical Controversies --
Institutional Review Boards --
Bias and Insensitivity Regarding Gender and Culture --
The Politics of Social Work Research --
Problem Formulation and Measurement --
Problem Formulation --
Overview of the Research Process --
The Research Proposal --
Problem Identification --
Purposes of Research --
The Time Dimension --
Units of Analysis --
Answers to Units of Analysis Exercise --
Conceptualization and Operationalization --
Conceptual Explication --
Operational Definitions --
Measuring Anything That Exists --
Definitions and Research Purposes --
Operationalization Choices --
Some Operationalization Illustrations --
Operationalization Goes On and On --
More Examples of Operationalization in Social Work --
Existing Scales --
Measurement --
Levels of Measurement --
Single or Composite Indicators --
Common Sources of Measurement Error.
0534263887 (acidfree paper) 9780534263881
Social service--Research--Methodology.
HV11 / .R84