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Key Variables in Social Investigation
Edited by Robert G. Burgess
First published in 1986
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This collection: British Sociological Association 1986
: British Sociological Association 1986
: Janet Finch 1986
: D.H.J. Morgan 1986
: Martin Bulmer 1986
: Sally Macintyre 1986
: Robert G. Burgess 1986
: Catherine Marsh 1986
: Kate Purcell 1986
: Stanley Parker 1986
: David Jary 1986
: C.G. Pickvance 1986
: Martin Bulmer and Robert G. Burgess 1986
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Main entry under title:
Key variables in social investigation.
Includes indexes.
1. SociologyResearchAddresses, essays, lectures.
2. Social sciencesResearchAddresses, essays, lectures.
I. Burgess, Robert G.
HM48.K46198630V .07285-2302
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ISBN 0-7100-9901-0
ISBN 0-7102-0621-6 (pbk.)
Martin Bulmer is Senior Lecturer in Social Administration at the London School of Economics & Political Science. For a period in the mid-1970s he was a statistician in the Population Statistics Division of OPCS, and he has edited Censuses, Surveys and Privacy (1979). His most recent publications are The Uses of Social Research (1982), (editor) Social Research Ethics (1982), (editor, with D. P. Warwick), Social Research in Developing Countries (1983), (editor) Sociological Research Methods (2nd edition, 1984), and The Chicago School of Sociology (1984). He also edited with Robert Burgess a special issue of Sociology (Vol. 15(4), November 1981)on The Teaching of Research Methodology.
Robert Burgess is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Warwick. He has conducted research on aspects of social research methodology and in the field of education. His main publications include: Experiencing Comprehensive Education (1983), In the Field: An Introduction to Field Research (1984) and Education, Schools and Schooling (1985). He has also edited: Teaching Research Methodology to Postgraduates: A Survey of Courses in the UK (1979), Field Research: A Sourcebook and Field Manual (1982), Exploring Society (1982), The Research Process in Educational Settings: Ten Case Studies (1984), Field Methods in the Study of Education (1985) and Strategies of Educational Research: Qualitative Methods (1985). He is especially interested in the development of research methodology in the study of educational settings. He was Honorary General Secretary of the British Sociological Association between 1982 and 1984.
Janet Finch is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Administration at Lancaster University. Her background is in sociology and she is active in the British Sociological Association, serving as its chairperson in 19834. Her research interests are in sexual divisions, the family and education. Publications include: Married To the Job (1983); Education As Social Policy (1984); and with Dulcic Groves, A Labour of Love (1983).
David Jary is Head of the Department of Sociology at North Staffs Polytechnic and was previously senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Salford. He was educated at LSE and the University of Leicester. His publications include: The Middle Class in Politics (joint editor), The Development of Sociology in the Polytechnics, Leisure and Society in Britain (contributor), and articles on political sociology and sociological theory. He is the current chairman of the Combined Social Sciences Board of the CNAA and a member of the editorial board of The Sociological Review.
Sally Macintyre has been Director of the Medical Research Councils Medical Sociology Unit since 1983. She has worked in that Unit since 1971, her research being mainly in the field of the sociology of human reproduction, but with interest also in the topics of perceptions of illness and of doctor/patient interaction. Her publications include: Single and Pregnant (1977) and articles on the management of childbirth, antenatal care, migraine and old age.
Catherine Marsh spent two years in the Social Science Research Councils Survey Unit in the mid-1970s. Since 1976, she has been a lecturer at the Social and Political Sciences Committee at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Newnham College. Her main research interests have been in validity issues in social surveys, and she is author of
