Reason & rigor : how conceptual frameworks guide research

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Title:

Reason & rigor : how conceptual frameworks guide research

Author:

Ravitch, Sharon M.

ISBN:

9781412981255

Personal Author:

Ravitch, Sharon M.

Publication Information:

Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c2012.

Physical Description:

xxi, 174 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Why Conceptual Frameworks? -- Chapter 3. Excavating Questions: Conceptual Frameworks and Research Design -- Chapter 4. The Role of the Conceptual Framework in Data Collection and Fieldwork -- Chapter 5. Conceptual Frameworks and the Analysis of Data -- Chapter 6. Expanding the Conversation, Extending the Argument: The Role of Conceptual Frameworks in Presenting, Explaining, and Contextualizing Findings -- Chapter 7. The Conceptual Framework as Guide and Ballast.

Abstract:

"Designed for novice as well as more experienced researchers embarking on a thesis or dissertation, as well as those advising them, this book presents conceptual frameworks as a mechanism for aligning literature review, research design, and methodology. Defined as an argument about why the topic of a study matters, and why the methods proposed to study it are appropriate and rigorous, the book explores the conceptual framework as both a process and a framework that helps to direct and ground researchers as they work through common research challenges."--pub. desc.

Subject Term:

Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology.

Research -- Methodology.

Qualitative research.

Added Author:

Riggan, Matthew.

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Designed for novice as well as more experienced researchers embarking on a thesis or dissertation, as well as those advising them, this book presents conceptual frameworks as a mechanism for aligning literature review, research design, and methodology. Defined as an argument about why the topic of a study matters, and why the methods proposed to study it are appropriate and rigorous, the book explores the conceptual framework as both a process and a framework that helps to direct and ground researchers as they work through common research challenges.