Researching leisure, sport, and tourism : the essential guide / Jonathan Long.
This is a comprehensive and informative book written especially for new and inexperienced researchers in the fields of leisure, sport and tourism, both full-time students and people in employment having to conduct their own research or make use of other people's research.
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Los Angeles :
SAGE Publications,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Wanting to know
- Ways of knowing, ways of seeing
- Finding what is already there: and putting it to use
- Subjects, respondents, participants, and collaborators
- Social surveys
- Setting questions
- Interviewing: openness with a sense of purpose
- Observation techniques: using your eyes and ears
- Interpreting texts
- Evaluation techniques
- Analysing quantitative data
- Analysing qualitative data
- Data display
- The responsibilities of the researcher
- Ways of seeing, ways of thinking
- Ways of writing and communicating.