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Product Description: Qualitative Methods in Social Work Research provides accessible, how-to instruction for carrying out rigorous qualitative research. Deborah K. Padgett’s thoroughly revised Third Edition offers a comprehensive introduction to qualitative methods based on six major approaches: ethnography, grounded theory, case study, narrative, phenomenological, and participatory action research...read more

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9781412951920 | 2 edition (Sage Pubns, June 20, 2008), cover price $124.00 | About this edition: The Second Edition of Qualitative Methods in Social Work Research provides accessible how-to instruction for social work and other practice-based researchers interested in carrying out rigorous and relevant qualitative research.

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9781452256702 | 3 reprint edition (Sage Pubns, June 28, 2016), cover price $64.00 | About this edition: Qualitative Methods in Social Work Research provides accessible, how-to instruction for carrying out rigorous qualitative research.
9781412951937 | 2 edition (Sage Pubns, June 20, 2008), cover price $90.00

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9780750960915 | History Pr Ltd, February 1, 2016, cover price $18.95
9780534263881, titled "Research Methods for Social Work" | Brooks/Cole Pub Co, September 1, 1996, cover price $84.95 | also contains Research Methods for Social Work

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If you're intimidated by the thought of taking research methods, Rubin and Babbie's classic bestseller can help you overcome the fear factor often associated with this course with its reader-friendly presentation of all aspects of the research endeavor. If you're not intimidated, you'll still appreciate the authors' clear and often humorous writing style as well as the book's depth and breadth of coverage. RESEARCH METHODS FOR SOCIAL WORK, Ninth Edition, strikes an optimal balance of quantitative and qualitative research techniques -- illustrating how the two methods complement one another and can be integrated in the same study. Relevant examples from real-world settings highlight the connections between research and social work practice. Comprehensive, friendly, accurate, and integrating the best of technology, this text is widely considered the best text for the research methods course -- and when you read it, you'll see why.

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9781305859616 | 9 lslf edition (Brooks/Cole Pub Co, January 1, 2016), cover price $157.95 | also contains Research Methods for Social Work
9781285173467 | 8 edition (Brooks/Cole Pub Co, February 15, 2013), cover price $249.95 | also contains Research Methods for Social Work
9780495811718 | 7 edition (Brooks/Cole Pub Co, January 1, 2010), cover price $267.95
9780495095156 | 6 edition (Brooks/Cole Pub Co, January 26, 2007), cover price $167.95 | About this edition: This best-selling text that has empowered more than 100,000 students just like you!
9780534250294 | Brooks/Cole Pub Co, July 1, 2000, cover price $100.95 | also contains Short Flights: Thirty-two Modern Writers Explore the World of Aphorisms With Insight, Inspiration and Wit | About this edition: In this extensive revision of their best-selling research methods text for social workers, Rubin and Babbie retain the integrity of their comprehensive, quantitative approach, while truly integrating increased coverage of qualitative methods.
3 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)

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9780495100799 | 6 stg edition (Brooks/Cole Pub Co, February 16, 2007), cover price $67.95 | About this edition: With this unique learning companion, students will enhance their comprehension of the text material and its application to the problems that they are likely to encounter in social work practice.
9781428817593 | 5th edition (Academic Internet Pub Inc, December 31, 2006), cover price $29.95

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9781285065137 | 8 har/psc edition (South-Western Pub, January 1, 2014), cover price $269.95
9780538477116 | 7 har/psc edition (South-Western Pub, January 26, 2011), cover price $259.95
9780030289316 | Hardcover with CD edition (South-Western Pub, May 16, 2008), cover price $244.95
9780324319804 | 11 pck edition (South-Western Pub, March 3, 2006), cover price $430.95
9780030316463 | Pck edition (Holt Rinehart & Winston, August 1, 2001), cover price $30.95
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9781305094994 | 8 unbnd co edition (South-Western Pub, January 28, 2014), cover price $175.95
9781428807228 | Academic Internet Pub Inc, October 31, 2006, cover price $40.95
9780324302691 | 11 stg edition (South-Western Pub, July 6, 2006), cover price $85.95
9780324258868 | South-Western Pub, April 30, 2003, cover price $51.95
9780324178326 | 10 stg edition (South-Western Pub, April 1, 2003), cover price $47.95
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If you're intimidated by the thought of taking research methods, Rubin and Babbie's classic bestseller can help you overcome the fear factor often associated with this course with its reader-friendly presentation of all aspects of the research endeavor. If you're not intimidated, you'll still appreciate the authors' clear and often humorous writing style as well as the book's depth and breadth of coverage. RESEARCH METHODS FOR SOCIAL WORK, Ninth Edition, strikes an optimal balance of quantitative and qualitative research techniques -- illustrating how the two methods complement one another and can be integrated in the same study. Relevant examples from real-world settings highlight the connections between research and social work practice. Comprehensive, friendly, accurate, and integrating the best of technology, this text is widely considered the best text for the research methods course -- and when you read it, you'll see why.

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9781305633827 | 9 student edition (Brooks/Cole Pub Co, January 1, 2016), cover price $249.95 | also contains Research Methods for Social Work | About this edition: If you're intimidated by the thought of taking research methods, Rubin and Babbie's classic bestseller can help you overcome the fear factor often associated with this course with its reader-friendly presentation of all aspects of the research endeavor.
9781305859616 | 9 lslf edition (Brooks/Cole Pub Co, January 1, 2016), cover price $157.95 | also contains Research Methods for Social Work
9781285173467 | 8 edition (Brooks/Cole Pub Co, February 15, 2013), cover price $249.95 | also contains Research Methods for Social Work
9781285419077, titled "Research Methods for Social Work: Research Methods for Social Work" | 8 lslf edition (Brooks/Cole Pub Co, February 14, 2013), cover price $159.95 | About this edition: Acclaimed for its depth and breadth of coverage as well as for the authors' clear and often humorous writing style, RESEARCH METHODS FOR SOCIAL WORK strikes an optimal balance of quantitative and qualitative research techniques--illustrating how the two methods complement one another.

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9780840032690, titled "Research Methods for Social Work: Study Guide for Rubin/Babbie's" | 7 stg edition (Brooks/Cole Pub Co, January 1, 2010), cover price $97.95

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Product Description: Content Analysis offers a comprehensive overview of the variation within content analysis, along with detailed descriptions of three approaches found in the contemporary literature: basic content analysis, interpretive content analysis and qualitative content analysis...read more

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9780190215491 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 20, 2015, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Content Analysis offers a comprehensive overview of the variation within content analysis, along with detailed descriptions of three approaches found in the contemporary literature: basic content analysis, interpretive content analysis and qualitative content analysis.

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Product Description: Video gaming: it’s a boy’s world, right? That’s what the industry wants us to think. Why and how we came to comply are what Carly A. Kocurek investigates in this provocative consideration of how an industry’s craving for respectability hooked up with cultural narratives about technology, masculinity, and youth at the video arcade...read more

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9780816691821 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, October 19, 2015, cover price $80.50 | About this edition: Video gaming: it’s a boy’s world, right?

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9780816691838 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, October 19, 2015, cover price $22.95
9780534349493, titled "Essential Interviewing: A Programmed Approach to Effective Communication" | Brooks/Cole Pub Co, August 1, 1997, cover price $64.95 | also contains Essential Interviewing: A Programmed Approach to Effective Communication
9780534349530, titled "Research Methods for Generalist Social Work" | Brooks/Cole Pub Co, July 1, 1997, cover price $66.95 | also contains Research Methods for Generalist Social Work

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Product Description: Social work research is concerned with complex social issues closely connected to communities of people who are marginalized and oppressed. This volume develops critical and creative research methodologies that place questions of social justice at their centre and take innovative approaches to collecting, analysing, interpreting and presenting research data...read more
By Lia Bryant (editor)

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9781472425829 | Ashgate Pub Co, July 28, 2015, cover price $119.95 | About this edition: Social work research is concerned with complex social issues closely connected to communities of people who are marginalized and oppressed.

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Get accurate information on social work concepts—anytime, anyplace! The Social Work Student's Research Handbook keeps the information you need on essential classroom concepts and principles right at your fingertips. Practical and easy to use, this comprehensive handbook provides instant access to the nuts and bolts of social work research. The handbook is a perfect resource to help students integrate research into projects, theses, and dissertations, and to help practitioners refresh, review, and organize their professional processes. The Social Work Student's Research Handbook is a complement to the dense and heavy research books available that cover a lot of material—and have the pages to prove it! It helps you sort through the narrative, details, and examples to get straight to the heart of each issue when it counts. It provides the tools you need to get through the learning process and is an essential aid for reference use with professional literature; for selecting a problem for social work study; identifying a design type; developing or selecting an instrument; developing a sampling strategy; collecting and analyzing data; and organizing, writing, disseminating, and utilizing results. The Social Work Student's Research Handbook includes concise, usable information on: problem formulation working from questions or hypothesis assumptions design options (exploratory, descriptive, experimental) evaluations (practice, program) data analysis (qualitative, quantitative) and much more. In addition, each chapter ends with a summary of major points to remember and a self-test exercise. The Social Work Student's Research Handbook is an invaluable resource for MSW students as they apply what they’ve learned in research courses toward original research projects. It’s equally handy for social work practitioners and research instructors.

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9781138844094 | 2 edition (Routledge, May 11, 2015), cover price $145.00
9780789014801 | Routledge, August 1, 2004, cover price $200.00

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9781138910829 | 2 edition (Routledge, May 1, 2015), cover price $48.95
9780789014818 | Routledge, August 1, 2004, cover price $65.95 | About this edition: Get accurate information on social work concepts—anytime, anyplace!

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Product Description: Measurement refers generally to the process of assigning a numeric value to, or ordering characteristics or traits of, entities under study. Measurement is necessary for building and testing theory, specifying problems, and defining goals...read more

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9780199855483 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 3, 2015, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Measurement refers generally to the process of assigning a numeric value to, or ordering characteristics or traits of, entities under study.

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Product Description: Bringing key developments and debates together in a single volume, this book provides an authoritative guide for students and practitioners embarking on qualitative research in social work and related fields.  Frequently illustrated with contemporary and classic case examples from the authors’ own empirical research and from international published work, and with self-directed learning tasks, the book provides insight into the difficulties and complexities of carrying out research, as well as sharing ‘success’ stories from the field...read more

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9781446252826 | Sage Pubns Ltd, April 29, 2014, cover price $144.00 | About this edition: Bringing key developments and debates together in a single volume, this book provides an authoritative guide for students and practitioners embarking on qualitative research in social work and related fields.

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9781446252871 | Sage Pubns Ltd, April 29, 2014, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Bringing key developments and debates together in a single volume, this book provides an authoritative guide for students and practitioners embarking on qualitative research in social work and related fields.

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Product Description: Samuel and Cynthia Faulkner have developed the perfect research methods text tailored specifically for social work students that illustrates how understanding research is valuable for success in evidence-based agency practice. From the basics of research to practice evaluation, the authors carefully guide students through the complete process...read more

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9781935871323 | 2 reprint edition (Lyceum Books, November 1, 2013), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Samuel and Cynthia Faulkner have developed the perfect research methods text tailored specifically for social work students that illustrates how understanding research is valuable for success in evidence-based agency practice.

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Product Description: In this volume, progressive experts survey recent trends in qualitative study, which relies on small sample groups and interview data to better represent the context and complexity of social work practice. Chapters address different approaches to qualitative inquiry, applications to essential areas of research and practice, integration of qualitative and quantitative methods, and epistemological issues...read more
By Anne E. Fortune (editor), Robert L. Miller, Jr. (editor) and William J. Reid (editor)

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9780231161381 | 2 edition (Columbia Univ Pr, May 21, 2013), cover price $150.00 | About this edition: In this volume, progressive experts survey recent trends in qualitative study, which relies on small sample groups and interview data to better represent the context and complexity of social work practice.

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9780231161398 | 2 edition (Columbia Univ Pr, May 21, 2013), cover price $65.00

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9781285075518 | 9 har/psc edition (Brooks/Cole Pub Co, March 6, 2013), cover price $236.95
9780840032058 | 8 edition (Brooks/Cole Pub Co, March 12, 2010), cover price $260.95
9780495392460 | 7 edition (Brooks/Cole Pub Co, March 1, 2007), cover price $158.95
9780155058231 | Brooks/Cole Pub Co, June 1, 2001, cover price $98.95

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Product Description: The complexity of social problems necessitates that social work researchers understand and apply multivariate statistical methods in their investigations. In this pocket guide, the authors introduce readers to three of the more frequently used multivariate methods in social work research with an emphasis on basic statistics...read more

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9780199764044 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 21, 2013, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: The complexity of social problems necessitates that social work researchers understand and apply multivariate statistical methods in their investigations.

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Product Description: Social work is developing its own research orientation and knowledge base, springing from the research traditions of sociology and psychology and grounded in human rights and social justice. Effective social research relies on critical thinking and the ability to view situations from new perspectives...read more

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9780415506779 | 3 edition (Routledge, October 11, 2012), cover price $160.00 | About this edition: Social work is developing its own research orientation and knowledge base, springing from the research traditions of sociology and psychology and grounded in human rights and social justice.
9780415307222 | 2 edition (Routledge, March 1, 2003), cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Social work is developing its own research orientation and knowledge base, springing from the research traditions of sociology and psychology and grounded in human rights and social justice.

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9780415506816 | 3 edition (Routledge, October 11, 2012), cover price $48.95 | About this edition: Social work is developing its own research orientation and knowledge base, springing from the research traditions of sociology and psychology and grounded in human rights and social justice.
9780415307239 | 2 edition (Routledge, March 7, 2003), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Social work is developing its own research orientation and knowledge base, springing from the research traditions of sociology and psychology and grounded in human rights and social justice.
9781865088945 | 2 edition (Allen & Unwin, December 1, 2002), cover price $36.95
9781864485172 | Allen & Unwin, May 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: An accessible introduction to research methods specifically needed in social work and social welfare, this text outlines the major stages of research projects, covering both quantitative and qualitative methods.

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Product Description: Qualitative methods have become increasingly popular among researchers, and while many comprehensive textbooks describe the standard techniques and philosophical assumptions, it is often assumed that practitioners are consumers of research and not producers...read more

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9780195398472 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 30, 2012, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: Qualitative methods have become increasingly popular among researchers, and while many comprehensive textbooks describe the standard techniques and philosophical assumptions, it is often assumed that practitioners are consumers of research and not producers.

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Product Description: Malcolm Carey provides social work students, academics and practitioners with a practical guide to completion of a small-scale qualitative research project or dissertation. This clear text takes the reader through the process of beginning and developing a research problem or question, defining their objectives and undertaking empirical or literature-based research that involves data collection, analysis, writing up and dissemination...read more
By Malcolm Carey (editor)

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9781409449317 | Ashgate Pub Co, August 28, 2012, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Malcolm Carey provides social work students, academics and practitioners with a practical guide to completion of a small-scale qualitative research project or dissertation.

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Product Description: Qualitative synthesis within the family of systematic reviews meets an urgent need to use knowledge derived from qualitative studies to inform practice, research, and policy. Despite the contingent nature of evidence gleaned from synthesis of qualitative studies, systematic synthesis is an important technique and, used judiciously, can deepen understanding of the contextual dimensions that emerge from qualitative research...read more

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9780195387216 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 25, 2012, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: Qualitative synthesis within the family of systematic reviews meets an urgent need to use knowledge derived from qualitative studies to inform practice, research, and policy.

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Product Description: Grounded Theory (GT) is one of the oldest and most often used forms of qualitative research. Unlike other methods, GT is used to develop theory. Grounded Theory has great potential for social work because in order to conduct theory-based practice, social workers need middle-range theories that are neither highly abstract nor difficult to apply in real life...read more

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9780199753697 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 30, 2012, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: Grounded Theory (GT) is one of the oldest and most often used forms of qualitative research.

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Product Description: Reader friendly and clear, Rubin and Babbie's concise and social work-specific research methods text provides you with the tools you need to understand the essential content for the course. Illustrations and examples throughout show you how you can apply research to practice...read more

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9780840029133, titled "Essential Research Methods for Social Work: Essential Research Methods for Social Work" | 3 edition (Brooks/Cole Pub Co, January 1, 2012), cover price $191.95 | About this edition: Reader friendly and clear, Rubin and Babbie's concise and social work-specific research methods text provides you with the tools you need to understand the essential content for the course.
9781133355069 | Gardners Books, December 15, 2011, cover price $85.50
9780495604372 | 2 edition (Brooks/Cole Pub Co, March 13, 2009), cover price $204.95 | About this edition: Master research methods with ESSENTIAL RESEARCH METHODS FOR SOCIAL WORK!

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Product Description: This book is dedicated to new mathematical instruments assigned for logical modeling of the memory of digital devices. The case in point is logic-dynamical operation named venjunction and venjunctive function as well as sequention and sequentional function...read more

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9783642216107 | Springer Verlag, June 27, 2011, cover price $149.00

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9783642268823, titled "Asynchronous Operators of Sequential Logic: Venjunction & Sequention: Digital Circuit Analysis and Design" | Springer Verlag, August 2, 2013, cover price $149.00 | About this edition: This book is dedicated to new mathematical instruments assigned for logical modeling of the memory of digital devices.
9780205157662, titled "Research Methods for Social Workers" | 2nd edition (Allyn & Bacon, August 1, 1995), cover price $52.20 | also contains Research Methods for Social Workers

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9781849207782 | 4th edition (Sage Pubns Ltd, March 4, 2011), cover price $112.00
9781412923613 | 3 edition (Sage Pubns Ltd, August 7, 2006), cover price $104.00
9780826455765 | 2 edition (Continuum Intl Pub Group, March 1, 2004), cover price $105.00

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9781849207799 | 4th edition (Sage Pubns Ltd, March 4, 2011), cover price $50.00
9781412923620 | Sage Pubns Ltd, August 7, 2006, cover price $35.95
9781412900881 | 2 reprint edition (Sage Pubns, October 1, 2003), cover price $34.95
9780826455567 | 2 edition (Sage Pubns, July 1, 2002), cover price $21.00

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Product Description: ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable...read more

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9780205042456 | 7 pck pap/ edition (Prentice Hall, May 4, 2011), cover price $178.27 | About this edition: ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN.
9780205820115 | 7 edition (Prentice Hall, February 14, 2011), cover price $171.60

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