Methods of family research
Theodore N. Greenstein.
- 2nd ed.
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. Sage Pulications c2006.
- xvii, 197 p. ill. 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-181) and index.
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 -- Studying families : mixed methods -- Sampling issues -- Working with scales and indices -- Analyzing data on families -- Using other people's data -- Evaluating family programs -- The ethics and politics of family research.