Based on Russell Schutt’s Investigating the Social World, the most successful and innovative social research text in the last decade, The Practice of Research in Social Work introduces research methods as an integrated set of techniques for investigating social work research and practice problems.
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"The co-authors bring expertise from social work and sociology, fields that share an interest in the "science" of the social sciences along with attention to real-world problems and solutions. The thirteen concise chapters are thoughtfully structured [and] the text provides a comprehensive overview of social sciences research with numerous examples from social work. A main strength of the book is the clarity with which the authors present complex topics." (Edward Cohen )
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Rafael J. Engel, PhD, is Associate Professor University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania). He received his PhD (1988) from the University of Wisconsin, his MSW (1979) from the University of Michigan, and his BA (1978) from the University of Pennsylvania. He coordinates the graduate certificate program in aging and is the Principal Investigator for the Hartford Partnership Program for Aging Education. He has written Fundamentals of Social Work Research (with Russell Schutt) and Measuring Race and Ethnicity (with Larry E. Davis). He is a member of the editorial board of Race and Social Problems. He has authored journal articles about poverty in later life, welfare benefits, and depressive symptomatology, and he has written a variety of monographs reporting agency-based evaluations. His most recent research addresses older adults and responsible gambling.
Russell K. Schutt, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Lecturer on Sociology in the Department of Psychiatry (Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center) at the Harvard Medical School. He completed his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. (1977) degrees at the University of Illinois at Chicago and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Sociology of Social Control Training Program at Yale University (1977–1979). He has authored and co-authored texts on research methods with Sage Publications and other books on social service issues, including Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Illness (Harvard University Press, 2011). His recent journal articles and funded research have focused on the organization and effects of innovative public health and social service programs.
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I am completing a masters in Social Work and for the purposes of school I took research in Social Work (second time I am taking research; the first time it was in college) and I read this book twice from cover to cover. It could be a bit dense at the time but hey, it is not a book about butterflies it is a book about research. I liked the book a lot because it clearly explains all the important terminology. I ended up with an A in the class.
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The winter of 1997 was not a good season for people living on the street. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
treatment misidentification, many social work researchers, evolving consumer households, causal validity, qualitative data analysts, exploratory research questions, sample generalizability, homeless mentally ill people, covert participation, links for online resources, nonprobability sampling methods, nomothetic perspective, domestic violence experiment, deductive research, program stakeholders, nonequivalent control group designs, baseline phase, measurement validity, withdrawal designs, qualitative comparative analysis, evaluation research studies, identity disclosure, different population subgroups, intensive interviewing, reductionist fallacy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, General Social Survey, Jack Olson, African American, Social Work Abstracts, Sage Publications, Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment, United Way, Catherine Ross, Class Exhibit, National Institute of Mental Health, Seniors Unit, Day Exhibit, Dependent Children, Elijah Anderson, Los Angeles, National Institutes of Health, Week Exhibit, World Wide Web, Habits of the Heart, Karen Lyman, Kellogg Foundation, National Opinion Research Center, New York City, Robert Stake New!
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United States, General Social Survey, Jack Olson, African American, Social Work Abstracts, Sage Publications, Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment, United Way, Catherine Ross, Class Exhibit, National Institute of Mental Health, Seniors Unit, Day Exhibit, Dependent Children, Elijah Anderson, Los Angeles, National Institutes of Health, Week Exhibit, World Wide Web, Habits of the Heart, Karen Lyman, Kellogg Foundation, National Opinion Research Center, New York City, Robert Stake New!
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- Doing Qualitative Research (Research Methods for Primary Care) by Benjamin F. Crabtree on 5 pages
- Qualitative Methods in Aging Research (SAGE Focus Editions) by Jaber F. Gubrium on 4 pages
- Handbook of Research Design and Social Measurement by Delbert C. Miller on 4 pages
- Surveying Subjective Phenomena. Volumes 1 & 2. (Vol 1 & 2) by Charles F. Turner in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness by Peter H. Rossi on page 15, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Making Sense of the Social World: Methods of Investigation by Daniel F. Chambliss in Front Matter
- Social Statistics for a Diverse Society by Chava Frankfort-Nachmias in Front Matter
- Social Statistics for a Diverse Society (Undergraduate Research Methods and Statistics) by Chava Frankfort-Nachmias in Front Matter
- A Guide to Qualitative Field Research (Pine Forge Series in Research Methods and Statistics) by Carol A. Bailey in Front Matter
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