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Summary:

Research Methods in Anthropology is the standard textbook for methods classes in anthropology. Whether you are coming from a scientific, interpretive, or applied anthropological tradition, you will learn field methods from the best guide in both qualitative and quantitative methods.

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1; Anthropology and the Social Sciences; The Craft of Research; Methods Belong to All of Us; Epistemology ;Ways of Knowing; Rationalism, Empiricism, and Kant; Rationalism, Empiricism, and Morality; The Norms of Science; The Development of Science;From Democritus to Newton; Exploration, Printing, and Modern Science; Science, Money, and War; The Development of Social Science;From Newton to Rousseau.
• Early Positivism, Saint-Simon, ComteTechnology and Science; Social Science Failures; The Varieties of Positivism; Later Positivism: The Vienna Circle; Instrumental Positivism; The Reaction against Positivism; About Numbers and Words: The Qualitative/ Quantitative Split; Ethics and Social Science; Chapter 2; The Foundations of Social Research; The Language of Social Research; Variables; Measurement and Concepts; Conceptual and Operational Definitions; Conceptual Definitions; Operational Definitions.
• Levels of MeasurementUnits of Analysis; Validity, Reliability, Accuracy, and Precision; Determining Validity; Cause and Effect; The Kalymnian Case; Chapter 3; Preparing for Research; Setting Things Up; The Ideal Research Process; A Realistic Approach; Ethics; Theory;Explanation and Prediction; A Guide to Research Topics, Anyway; Cell I:; Cell II:; Cell IIIa:; Cell IIIb:; Cell IV:; Cell V:; Cell VI:; Cell VIIa:; Cell VIIb:; Cell VIII:; Cell IX:; Cell Xa:; Cell Xb:; Cell Xc.
• Cell XIa:Cell XIb:; Cell XIIa:; Cell XIIb:; Cell XIII:; Cell XIV:; Cell XV:; The Literature Search; Anthropology Databases; Free Databases of Relevance to Anthropology ; Other Databases; Websites; Meta-Analysis; Chapter 4; Research Design; Experiments; Kinds of Confounds: Threats to Validity; Controlling for Threats to Validity; Thought Experiments; True Experiments in the Lab; True Experiments in the Field; Natural Experiments; Turning a Confound into a Natural Experiment; Naturalistic Experiments.
• Comparative Naturalistic ExperimentsAre Field Experiments Ethical? ; The Watergate Experiment; Factorial Designs: Main Effects and Interaction Effects; Chapter 5; Sampling I; What Are Samples and Why Do We Need Them? ; Why the United States Still Has a Census; It Pays to Take Samples and to Stick with Them; Sampling Frames; Simple Random Samples; Systematic Random Sampling; Stratified Sampling; Cluster Sampling and Complex Sampling Designs; Probability Proportionate to Size; How Big Should a Sample Be? ; Chapter 6.

Author/Creator:

Bernard, H. Russell (Harvey Russell), 1940- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Research methods in anthropology: qualitative and quantitative approaches [by Bernard, H.R.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Research methods in anthropology [by Bernard, H.R.] (Sixth Edition; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017] — ISBN 9781442268845; LCCN 2017036691)

Subjects:

Ethnology — Methodology

Ethnology

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 11, 2017).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 709 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GN345 .B36 2018eb

ISBNs:

9781442268869 (electronic book)
1442268867 (electronic book)
9781442268845 (hardcover, alkaline paper) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2017039198

OCLC Numbers:

1001287627