This best-selling text that has empowered more than 100,000 students just like you! Considered the best social work research methods resource, RESEARCH METHODS FOR SOCIAL WORK balances essential content with enlightening examples, consistently revealing the important connections between real research and true-to-life social work practice.
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"This text is remarkably up-to-date providing a wealth of information and resources for instructors and students."
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About the Author
After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, Allen Rubin served as a researcher for the Council on Social Work Education before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in 1979, where he remains as the Bert Kruger Smith Centennial Professor. He has published numerous research studies on social work practice and is a past president of the Society for Social Work and Research.
A native of New England, Earl Babbie graduated from Harvard University before enlisting in the United States Marine Corps. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and began teaching shortly thereafter. Earl Babbie has written several texts for Thomson Wadsworth, including the best-selling THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL RESEARCH. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
A native of New England, Earl Babbie graduated from Harvard University before enlisting in the United States Marine Corps. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and began teaching shortly thereafter. Earl Babbie has written several texts for Thomson Wadsworth, including the best-selling THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL RESEARCH. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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22 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Just the main points, please!,
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This review is from: Research Methods for Social Work (with InfoTrac ) (Hardcover)
I'm taking a research methods course right now and, unfortunately, this is the book that was assigned. The chapters are too long and the authors make things more complex by trying to include too many examples and unnecessary filler material. Research methods is boring anyway, but Rubin and Babbie make learning about it more boring and confusing by not getting straight to the point. I have a "quiz" next week and you don't know how tedious it is read through these chapters. I had to learn how to speed read in order to save time and find the important information.Thank goodness the book is at least organized.
22 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
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Rubin & Babbie,
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This review is from: Research Methods for Social Work (with InfoTrac) (Hardcover)
This book was assigned as a text for my Social Work research class. The entire class found the book very wordy, chapters were too long and hard to focus on. As a professional the book would probably be helpful for self-teaching, but as a text book, it will bore your students to tears.
15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Difficult to read,
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This review is from: Research Methods for Social Work (with InfoTrac) (Hardcover)
This book is really long winded and boring. It rambles a lot and is quite incoherent, though I would give it some credit for trying to sound personable. The chapter on inferential statistics, especially isn't very clear which makes it even more frustrating because stats is already quite a dry topic.
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