"Introduction to Social Research" by Earl Babie combines the liveliness and simplicity of oral speech with the detailed and scientifically documented presentation of topics, while the content and relevant references cover international trends and developments.
In the new edition, among other things, the following are included: Learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter, which explain the relevant discussion, updated diagrams, surveys, observational studies that allow the reader to have a closer contact with the real world, expanded discussion on probabilistic causality, explanation of the importance of falsification in relation to hypotheses, addition of a new section on combinatorial methods, introduction of a new trend study on American fears, addition of a discussion on cognitive interviews, addition of a discussion on the definition of rape and other variables, introduction of the term chainreferral, expanded discussion on sampling in electronic research, updated section on electronic surveys with the presentation of their advantages, addition of a discussion on the impact of gender on in-depth interviews, expansion of the discussion on the ethics of field research, addition of a discussion on the affinity method focusing on voice, discussion on Tyler Vigen's work regarding false correlations between significant data."