Download or read book Approaches to Social Research written by Royce Singleton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly revised and updated, this remarkably successful text offers a sophisticated introduction to social research methods in a variety of fields. It provides balanced, comprehensive treatment of four major approaches--experimentation, survey research, field research, and the use of available data--with extensive substantive examples and a clarity of exposition that recommend it to students with no background.