The Practice of Social Research
September 16th, 2009 by admin | Filed under social.
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“The biggest strength of this book is that it is well written and students find it very approachable. The use of examples is excellent and aids very much in conveying difficult concepts and ideas.”"The principle strength of the Babbie text is its balance of technical information and accessibility for students as well as a balanced presentation of qualitative and quantitative research methods
the use of humor in this text is also an enormous asset. I really liked this text it its approach, presentation, and tenor.”"It is the best methods text nothing is close to this over the years it has been perfected.”"This is a very fine textbook in terms of content and style. Babbie covers the key aspects of sociological re [Read More...]
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This book is a course requirement; otherwise it would not have been purchased. In my opinion this is unquestionably the worst textbook I have every read. I have read a lot of textbooks, over 60 boxes worth, both as a student and a professor. Some have been a good read, others not. In all of them I have found at least something worthwhile. Not this time.
This is the most confusing, redundant, turgid, and poorly edited book I have ever read. There seems to be an inverse relation between the amount of text devoted to a topic and its’ complexity, e.g. “percentaging (sic) a table”. The discussion, in chapter 16, on correlation and regression is without a doubt the single worst presentation on the topic I have ever seen. Since this is the 10th edition, you would think Babbie and the publisher would have gotten it right. They didn’t. I think a more appropriate description is a first edition repeated nine times.
Babbie may be a fine instructor and a prominent researcher, but this is a terrible piece of babble and banality.
I would give the book a zero if the system allowed it.