Ordinary Human Inquiry
Tradition
Authority
Errors in Inquiry and Some Solutions
What’s Really Real?
THE FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
Theory, Not Philosophy or Belief
Social Regularities
Aggregates, Not Individuals
A Variable Language
SOME DIALECTICS OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
Idiographic and Nomothetic Explanation
Inductive and Deductive Theory
Qualitative and Quantitative Data
Pure and Applied Research
THE ETHICS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH
Voluntary Participation
No Harm to Subjects
ResourcesRoland K. Hawkes's Resources for Teachers
http://www.siu.edu/~hawkes/methods.html
University of Surrey: Social Research Update
http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/sru/sru.html
Michael Kearl’s Methods, Statistics, and the Research Paper
http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/methods.html