Research Methodology for Social Sciences

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Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents List of figures List of tables List of contributors Foreword Editors’ note Introduction Part I Epistemological issues 1 Methodological or epistemological issues in social research Part II Debates in research methods 2 Towards a pragmatic centre: debates on qualitative methodology 3 Ethnographic fieldwork: the predicaments and possibilities 4 Diversity in economics: an examination and defence of heterodox approach Part III Methods of conflict analysis and policy evaluation 5 Game theory: strategy design in conflict situations 6 Impact evaluation: a simple need and a difficult choice of methodology 7 Construction of different types of indices in social science research: some numerical examples Part IV Quantitative research methods and predictive analysis 8 Designing a primary survey-based research 9 Sampling methods: a survey 10 An introduction to statistical inference 11 Problems of endogeneity in social science research 12 Quantitative methods for qualitative variables in social science: an introduction