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Research Methods in Social Science is an essential companion for all undergraduate and postgraduate students embarking on a methods course or social research project. The second edition features two new chapters as annexures: one for students of history, the other for students of biological sciences. The first chapter now includes an introduction to a very brief history of the development of modern science, including social science. This book gives a cogent ...
Tracing the history of population growth in India vis--vis the world since pre-census years the author, in this book, has shown how population growth in India and elsewhere is overwhelmingly linked to death rates mostly caused by epidemics and famines that visited the country almost regularly. Once these came under some control along with the arrival of preventive medicines and improved health care facilities, death rate plummeted rapidly resulting in faster ...
The most exhaustive, analytical and critical commentary on the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 also contains case-law relating to dowry death, cruelty and harassment etc. etc., along with state rules.
An ardent reader in social science today takes as much interest in the research conclusions as the methods by which they are arrived at. Increasingly, the merit of a research is judged not by conclusions but by the design of the research and the assumptions the researcher makes about his methods and data, method of selection of the sample, controls exercised at different stages of the study, the nature of measurements involved and the statistical/mathematical ...