Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Following up on his successful initial foray into helping students better understand the research results they encounter, author Theodore N. Greenstein has revised and updated his popular Methods of Family Research to benefit a new generation of students and researchers! The Second Edition of Methods of Family Research differs from other research methods texts in a significant way. While traditional texts focus on teaching students how to produce research, this text teaches how to consume research. Written in a clear, concise style, this book introduces the basic concepts of social science research methods without getting bogged down in technical details. The text covers traditional quantitative methods, qualitative methods, and the mixed-method approach, and uses real-life examples to address issues family researchers deal with every day.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Why do Research on Families?
• Causal Inference in Family Research
• Searching and Reading the Literature
• Using the Internet to Study Families
• How do we Measure Concepts?
• Studying Families
• Quantitative Methods
• Studying Families
• Qualitative Methods
• Sampling Issues
• Working with Scales and Indices
• Analyzing Data on Families
• Evaluating Family Programs
• Using Other People's Data
• The Ethics and Politics of Family Research