For many years Research at grass roots: for the social sciences and
human services professions supported
social sciences researchers and human services professionals with a
comprehensive, local and easy-to-use research guide. The work in this updated
and expanded edition continues to assist novice researchers as well as more experienced
researchers, postgraduate students and academics with a range of methodological
decisions required in planning, designing, executing and reporting on their
research endeavours.
Although many salient features of the
previous four successful editions have been retained, exciting new features have
been added, including material to support lecturers who teach research courses. The unique
structure of the book, consisting of different sections highlighting
methodological decisions common to both the qualitative and quantitative
approaches, those unique to qualitative and quantitative research and those
which combine these approaches, have been developed from decades of work with
postgraduate students and practitioner-researchers. New content includes a
focus on the growing impetus of ethical conduct in research with human participants;
debates and developments in the field of big data sets; and the latest trends
in thematic and narrative inquiry, as well as contemporary data collection
methods.
Contributions from experienced
researchers, including Herman Strydom, Wim Roestenburg, Christa Fouché, Willem Schurink
and Allen Bartley build on the substantial work that has been done before, with
new contributions from Stephan Geyer, Laura Ann Chubb and Ladan Hashemi. We are
also excited about new chapters from Maximus Sefotho on social research in
professional practice, as well as from Mogomme Masoga and Allucia Shokane on decolonising
methodologies in the social sciences and human services professions.
We are convinced that, like many
researchers over the last several decades, you will find this book a prominent addition
to your own research reading.
Section A: Research in the human services professions
Chapter 1: Research and professional
practice
Chapter 2: An Afro-sensed perspective
on decolonising research methodologies
Chapter 3: Introduction to the
research process
Section B: Steps common to both quantitative and qualitative research
Chapter 4: Framing the proposed
study
Chapter 5: Developing the research
proposal
Chapter 6: The place of literature
and theory in research
Chapter 7: Ethical conduct in research
with human participants
Chapter 8: Research dissemination
and impact
Section C: Steps unique to quantitative research
Chapter 9: Quantitative research
designs
Chapter 10: Big data in social
science research
Chapter 11: Quantitative data
collection methods
Chapter 12: Sampling techniques
and pilot studies in quantitative research
Chapter 13: Quantitative data
analysis and interpretation
Section D: Steps unique to qualitative research
Chapter 14: Thematic inquiry in
qualitative research
Chapter 15: Narrative inquiry in
qualitative research
Chapter 16: Contemporary data
collection methods
Chapter 17: Interviews as data
collection method
Chapter 18: Sampling techniques
and pilot studies in qualitative research
Chapter 19: Qualitative data analysis
and interpretation
Section E: Combined qualitative and quantitative research
Chapter 20: Mixed methods research
Chapter 21: Evaluation research
Chapter 22: Intervention research
Chapter 23: Participatory research
Chapter 24: Building a scientific
base for the human services professions
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