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In this most extensive revision of their classic text for social workers, Rubin and Babbie retain the integrity of their comprehensive, quantitative approach, while including more content about qualitative methods. As one pre-publication reviewer pointed out, ''With this edition, you have solved a problem in the discipline by infusing coverage of qualitative issues where it is most important".
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Covers research methodologies and all phases of the research process. Includes chapter key points, questions and exercises, and many appendices. This third edition offers expanded material on qualitative social work research methods, while retaining a focus on the quantitative approach, and emphasizes the benefits of integrating both approaches. It also demonstrates connections between epistemology and research methods, acknowledging epistemological approaches other than positivism and post-positivism, and provides enhanced material on gender- and minority-related research and cross-cultural research. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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