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020			_a0534263887 (acidfree paper)
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050	0	0	_aHV11 _b.R84
100	1		_aRubin, Allen.
245	1	0	_aResearch methods for social work / _cAllen Rubin, Earl Babbie.
250			_a3rd ed.
260			_aPacific Grove : _bBrooks/Cole Pub. Co., _cc1997.
300			_a1 v. (various pagings) : _bill. ; _c25 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
505			_aAn 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.
650		0	_aSocial service _xResearch _xMethodology.
700	1		_aBabbie, Earl R.
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