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This 7 page paper is a review of two books aimed at undergraduate students to show them how to undertake social research. The books are Social Research Methods by A Bryman published by Oxford University Press and Researching Social Life, edited by N Gilbert published by Sage. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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observation during the middle ages. Today there is a great deal more knowledge regarding the way research can be gathered in order to discover truth or test ideas.
A large amount of literature has been written, by looking at two different books on the subject of research we can get
an overview of the approaches that may be taken and the wide variety of choice. It is also important that good solid books are chosen to guide the student so
by reviewing two books to gain an oversight in the advice and value they can offer the student. The first book is by Bryman, published in 2001 and titled
Social Research Methods published by Oxford University Press. This has been updated as the 1002 edition is the second edition, although there were not a great deal of changes. This
book gives a good oversight in to the different forms of research and approaches that can be taken. There are two approaches
that can be taken, both of which are covered in this book; qualitative and quantitative. Quantitative research relies more on a large amount of results, with the data being recorded
often being predominately numerical, it is suitable to be used as a method of determining cause and effect relationships. The methodologies for
this approach will often be based on scientific procedures of investigation. Quantitative research includes descriptive, correlational, quasi-experimental and experimental (Curwin and Slater, 2001).
Qualitative research is narrower and more concentrated by looking to information to be gained in-depth from a smaller quantity of subjects. Often this research will be word based
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