PSYC 4351: Research Methods in the Social Sciences: Websites

Intended to help you organize and write a quality research paper for classes taught in the social sciences

Provides an overview of historic and current theories of human behavior.

Qualitative research is a vast and complex area of methodology that can easily take up whole textbooks on its own. The purpose of this section is to introduce you to the idea of qualitative research (and how it is related to quantitative research) and give you some orientation to the major types of qualitative research data, approaches and methods.

CQRM promotes the development, dissemination, and use of qualitative research methods in the social sciences.

From the Qualitative Research Consultants Association

A data collector’s field guide from the Family Health International.

Provides an overview of historic and current theories of human behavior.

From Frontiers in Psychology

Publishes contributions to the theory and use of best practices in quantitative methods and measurement applied to research in psychology and related social sciences.

From the University of Southern California Libraries.

From the Xavier University Library.