Principles of social research: The research process -- Choosing the research problem -- Constructing social explanations -- Measurement -- Survey research methods: Survey sampling -- Questionnaire construction -- Mailed questionnaires -- Interview studies -- Nonsurvey data collection techniques: Experiments -- Observation -- Ethnomethodology -- Document study -- Simulations and games -- Data reduction, analysis interpretation, and application: Coding and data reduction -- Analysis, presentation and interpretation of data -- Scaling -- Ethics in social research -- Applications -- Constructing and revising complex theories

1. Research Methodology