Research Methods for Social Work 9th Edition by Allen Rubin, ISBN-13: 978-0357670972

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Research Methods for Social Work 9th Edition by Allen Rubin, ISBN-13: 978-0357670972

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• Publisher: ‎ Brooks/Cole; 9th edition (April 5, 2021)
• Language: ‎ English
• 677 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0357670973
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0357670972

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.

Table of Contents:

PART 1

An Introduction to Scientific Inquiry in

Social Work 1

Chapter 1 Why Study Research? 2

Chapter 2 Evidence-Based Practice 24

Chapter 3 Factors Influencing the Research

Process 43

Chapter 4 Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed

Methods of Inquiry 66

PART 2

The Ethical, Political, and Cultural Context of

Social Work Research 81

Chapter 5 The Ethics and Politics of Social Work

Research 82

Chapter 6 Culturally Competent Research 112

PART 3

Problem Formulation and Measurement 139

Chapter 7 Problem Formulation 140

Chapter 8 Conceptualization in Quantitative

and Qualitative Inquiry 162

Chapter 9 Measurement 191

Chapter 10 Constructing Measurement

Instruments 218

PART 4

Designs for Evaluating Programs

and Practice 241

Chapter 11 Causal Inference and Experimental

Designs 243

Chapter 12 Quasi-Experimental Designs 272

Chapter 13 Single-Case Evaluation Designs 292

Chapter 14 Program Evaluation 320

PART 5

Data Collection Methods with Large Sources

of Data 347

Chapter 15 Sampling 349

Chapter 16 Survey Research 378

Chapter 17 Analyzing Existing Data: Quantitative

and Qualitative Methods 403

PART 6

Qualitative Research Methods 433

Chapter 18 Qualitative Research: General

Principles 434

Chapter 19 Qualitative Research: Specific

Methods 455

Chapter 20 Qualitative Data Analysis 478

PART 7

Analysis of Quantitative Data 503

Chapter 21 Descriptive Data Analysis 504

Chapter 22 Inferential Data Analysis 528

PART 8

Writing Research Proposals and Reports 551

Chapter 23 Writing Research Proposals

and Reports 552

Appendix A Using the Library 577

Appendix B Statistics for Estimating Sampling

Error 584

Appendix C Critically Appraising

Meta-Analyses 593

Glossary 596

Bibliography 617

Index 637

Allen Rubin has been doing and teaching research since 1976, when he received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. Renowned in social work, Dr. Rubin has written several research texts, published numerous research studies on social work practice, and is a past president of the Society for Social Work and Research.

Dr. Earl Babbie is the Campbell Professor Emeritus in Behavioral Sciences at Chapman University in Southern California. He taught sociology at the University of Hawaii from 1968 through 1979, took time off from teaching and research to write full time for eight years and then joined the Chapman University faculty in 1987. Credited with defining research methods for the social sciences, Dr. Babbie has written several texts — including THE BASICS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH — as well as numerous research articles and monographs. For 25 years he has been active in the American Sociological Association, where he served on the executive committee. He also is a past president of the Pacific Sociological Association and the California Sociological Association. Dr. Babbie received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

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