In this Second Edition, you'll also get a close-up look at how quantitative software such as SPSS and MicroCase and qualitative software such as NVivo are effectively utilized to make the research process more productive. You'll learn about the exploding use of telecommunications and cyberspace tools for social research, including Computer-Assisted Telephone
Interviewing(CATI) and researchers' initial experiment with online polling. And you'll see how new technologies such as computer-assisted data collection and analysis are now viable tools in the social tesearcher's arsenal.
Part 1 An intorduction to inquiry
Part 2 The structuring of inquiry
Part 3 Modes of Observation
Part 4 Analysis of data