Introduction • History; Social Work; Definition of Social Work; Foundations of social research; Uses and Limitations of Social Statistics ; Foundations of the Academic Discipline; Positivism and Antipositivism; Theoretical Frameworks; Design of Sociological Research; Content Analysis; Sociology as a Value-free Science; Techniques of Data Collection • Social Work Research Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed-Method Research; Research Designs; Strengths and Limitations of Research; Social Research Methods/Quantitative Research; Developing Code Categories; Univariate Analysis; Bivariate Analysis; Introduction to Multivariate Analysis; Qualitative Versus Quantitative Research • Qualitative Methods Research • Internal Criticism: Historical Reliability; Synthesis: Historical Reasoning; Life History; Ethnography and Sociology; Longitudinal Study; Methodological Issues; Quantitative Definitions and Methodologies; Morphological Analysis; Origin of “Participatory” Techniques in Qualitative Research • Integration of Social Work Research Current Status of Social Work Practice; Social Sciences Statistics – Mean, Median, and Mode; Measures of Dispersion; Standard deviation; Pearson’s Chi-square Test; Chi-square distribution; Chi-square test; Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient; Social Work Practice: The Process • Social Research Methods and Research Design Three Purposes of Research; The Ethics of Research Design; Design; What is Research Design?; THE RESEARCH PROCESS; Social Design; Experimental Research; Typical Designs And Features In Experimental Design; Conducting The Experiment; Exploratory Research; An Example of a Hybrid Design; The Nature of Good Design; Design Notation Examples; Types of Designs; Experimental Design; Designing Designs for Research; Design Construction; A Simple Strategy for Design Construction; The Purposes of Flexible Method Research • Research Methods in Survey Sampling Survey Methodology; Survey Sampling Methods; Method of Sample and Procedure …
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