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Questioning Numbers: How to Read and Critique Research is a critical companion for students in research methods courses in any of the social sciences. This book helps teach students how to read and critique research that employs numbers in the course of empirical argument. Author Karin Gwinn Wilkins provides a list of guidelines for reading research and also presents a critical approach to judging and using numbers in navigating and changing social worlds. Illuminating the agendas and politics that can inform how research is conducted and interpreted, this text shows readers how to read and critique research contexts, research design, sampling strategies, definitions, research implementation, data analysis, and interpretation. It also provides strong pedagogical support, including key terms, review exercises, and end-of-chapter reflection questions. A flexible supplement to more comprehensive research texts, Questioning Numbers helps students to become more critical consumers and producers of quantitative research across the social sciences.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Questioning the Politics of Numbers
• Subtitle: How to Read and Critique Research
• Author: Karin Gwinn Wilkins
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9780199747399
• ISBN: 0199747393
• ID: 04535501
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 160 g
• Dimensions: 207 × 142 × 7 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. November 2010

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