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Exploratory Research in the Social Sciences
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Exploratory Research in the Social Sciences

Volume: 48
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Qualitative Research
80 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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Guided by the precept that to understand any phenomenon well, it is necessary to start by looking at it in broad, nonspecialized terms, Robert A Stebbins takes the reader through the process of exploratory research in an easy-to-read style providing the student or researcher with a complete reference for carrying out this type of research.
 
Introduction
 
What Is Exploration?
 
Exploring
 
Exploration Illustrated
 
Writing Up Exploratory Research
 
The Explorer
 
Exploration
Its Future in the Information Age

 

An insightful approach to research as an exploration rather than a set of rules and strategies. A book would be valuable for anyone who is up taking qualitative research that is dealing with people's stories

Ms Irena Loveikaite
College Street Campus, Waterford Institute of Technology
June 16, 2016
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Robert Alan Stebbins

Robert A. Stebbins, FRSC, is Faculty Professor in the Department of Sociology at the ... More About Author

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