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Overview
Accessible and practical overview to help social reseachers make the most of information technology in relation to research design and selection, management and analysis of research data. The book pinpoints current and future trends in computer-assisted methods.; This book is intended for postgraduate and undergraduate social research methods courses and professional social researchers in sociology, social policy and administration, social psychology and geography. Particular appeal to courses in computer applications for social scientists.
Synopsis
Accessible and practical overview to help social reseachers make the most of information technology in relation to research design and selection, management and analysis of research data. The book pinpoints current and future trends in computer-assisted methods.; This book is intended for postgraduate and undergraduate social research methods courses and professional social researchers in sociology, social policy and administration, social psychology and geography. Particular appeal to courses in computer applications for social scientists.
Booknews
Each chapter reviews the state of the art in the application of information technology to the work of social scientists, with information on desktop tools, on-line services and CD-ROM, computer- assisted personal interviewing in survey research, statistical software packages, databases, using computers in ethnographic fieldwork, model building, expert systems, geographical computing, and computer simulation to study social phenomena. Includes a glossary. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)