Exploratory Research in the Social Sciences,9780761923992

Exploratory Research in the Social Sciences

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ISBN13: 9780761923992
ISBN10: 0761923993
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-05-14
Publisher(s): SAGE Publications, Inc
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Summary

Guided by the precept that to understand any phenomenon well, it is necessary to start by looking at it in broad, nonspecialized terms, Robert A Stebbins takes the reader through the process of exploratory research in an easy-to-read style providing the student or researcher with a complete reference for carrying out this type of research.

Author Biography

Robert A. Stebbins is Professor in, and former Head of, the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Introduction v
Introduction vii
What Is Exploration?
1(16)
Defining Exploration
2(3)
The Process of Exploration
5(4)
Exploration and Confirmation
9(3)
Concatenation
12(5)
Conclusions
17(1)
Exploring
17(13)
Setting the Agenda
18(6)
Induction, Deduction, and Exploration
24(4)
Qualitative and Quantitative
28(2)
Conclusions
30(1)
Exploration Illustrated
30(11)
Middle-Class Marijuana Users and Lifestyle
31(2)
Women and the Development of Occupational Aspirations
33(2)
Becoming a Mother: Experiencing the Postpartum Phenomenon
35(1)
Health Care Coordination: The Consumer's View
36(2)
Prison Inmates in Wildlife Rehabilitation
38(2)
Conclusiveness and Generalizability
40(1)
Writing up Exploratory Research
41(9)
The Literature Review
42(1)
Supremacy of Generalizations
43(1)
Quoting Respondents
44(2)
On the Nature of Generalizations
46(1)
Validity and Reliability
47(3)
Conclusions
50(1)
The Explorer
50(8)
What Is an Explorer?
51(1)
Lifestyle
52(3)
Motivation and Career
55(3)
Conclusions
58(1)
Exploration: Its Future in the Social Sciences
58(4)
Exploration in the Information Age
59(3)
References 62(5)
About the Author 67

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