What books do you need to read first to conduct social research?

Social research has a certain breadth, so if you want to conduct social research, you need to subdivide the field, and different fields have different books for you to study and read, and then finally get the knowledge and skills you need.

For example, the most important in the social field may be economics, and then there are social workers, and there are other studies on human behavior, etc., but no matter what kind of social field of research, in fact, it ultimately boils down to a human behavior of the whole society, but if you really want to do research, you have to subdivide it, and no book can combine so many social fields together.

So I personally think that the first thing you need to do is to do more subdivided things, and then, gather the knowledge you have obtained, and choose a route that you want to study, so that you can have a way to read those books, of course, some of the most introductory books may also be similar, a brief history of mankind, or some other books about history, because history and society are closely related, and you read history, so what behaviors can you finally find? What phenomena are of interest to you? If you're interested in these things, then you'll probably be able to find a direction very quickly.

When you find the direction you need to study, such as economics, then you can find more things about segmentation, and then you can look at some data of economics, and economics is also divided into many types, such as industrial economics, human behavior economics, and macroeconomics microeconomics, these economics, the West is what you need to do next, so the local expertise is subdivided to a certain point. It is possible for your own personal ability to improve greatly at a certain point, and eventually come up with your own research results, and I hope that you can read these books to understand these things.

I think the first thing to study, and the one you need to study the most, is the books on interpersonal relationships. Although I am only a university student and live in a relatively peaceful and harmonious environment, I have now deeply felt the importance of interpersonal relationships, which is really something I need to study for the rest of my life.

My deepest feeling about this was when I was a freshman and just started my military training. At that time, I had to take a leave of absence for physical reasons, and the instructor allowed me not to participate in training, but to sit there and watch other students train. Then I noticed a very interesting phenomenon, for example, if there are about 500 students in the playground, there are a few of them who are treated very well.

Not only will the instructors not be particularly difficult for them, but there will often be seniors and seniors who will bring them delicious food. <>

I often see a person who can enjoy the chilled watermelon brought by the seniors in the scorching summer when other students are drinking the hot mineral water that has been sunburned.

When I first saw this phenomenon, I was also very narrow-minded to say that this person was not a child of the school leader or a special background, and then after getting along with him for a while, I found that the biggest characteristic of this person is that he is very good at communicating, very good at talking, and has a sense of being exquisite, and he is very comfortable with him. As for the seniors who came to deliver food, he also told me without concealing that he had already chatted well with these seniors when they didn't know each other yet, but when they were just communicating in the group, they had established a good relationship with each other.

Therefore, I think that a person's interpersonal skills or emotional intelligence is really a very important aspect, and it is also the most important aspect to consider in social research.

There are four types of sociological research methods: survey research, experimental research, literature analysis, and field investigation.

1. Survey and research are applicable to surveys on social living conditions, surveys on social insight and defamy, market surveys, public opinion surveys and academic surveys.

2. Experimental research is suitable for exploring whether there is a causal and non-circular relationship between two phenomena, and the types of experiments include laboratory experiments and field experiments, standard experiments and quasi-experiments.

3. Literature research is suitable for studying those research objects that cannot be accessed and longitudinal analysis, including content analysis, secondary analysis and existing statistical analysis.

4. Field research is suitable for studying the process of development and change of phenomena and their characteristics, and it is a social research method that goes deep into the life context of the phenomenon under study, collects data through participatory observation and unstructured interviews, and understands and explains the phenomenon through qualitative analysis of these data.

If you want to study some social phenomena, you should read "Aesop's Fables", "Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales", "Grimm's Fairy Tales", "365 Night Tales", "Folk Tales", "Proverbs", "Physical Geography", "100,000 Whys", "Philosophy", "Idiom Stories", "Historical Records", "*** Anthology", Engels's "Dialectics of Nature", "Red Rock", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "Journey to the West", "Dream of Red Mansions", "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", "Capital", "The Art of War", "Cihai" , "Kangxi Dictionary" and other related books.

"The Appearance of Officialdom" and "Chinese-style Team".

Sociology and the Category of Social Psychology.

"Copying Social Research.

Fundamentals of Attacking Law" Social Studies.

Foundations of Methods (4th Edition) is a rewritten version of Social Research Methods by the same author, which has been translated and introduced to many non-English-speaking countries in the world as a common textbook in American universities. There have been 11 editions of Social Research Methods and 4 editions of Foundations of Social Research Methods over the past 30 years.

The goal of "Foundations of Social Research Methods" is to introduce the basic ideas and primary methods of social science research to readers who have no understanding of social sciences, from data collection to application of data, from basic theories to operational skills, in simple and gradual terms. I hoped for all.

It is a rare primer for readers of the social sciences. The condensed compiled version is more suitable for teaching non-social research methods majors, with 30-40 class hours.

Investigation;

experimental studies; Literature research.

Chapter 1 Human Research and Science.

Chapter 2 Paradigmatic, Theoretical, and Social Studies.

Chapter 3: Ethics and Politics in Social Research.

Chapter 4 Study Design.

Chapter 5 Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Measurement.

Chapter 6: Indicators, Scales, and Taxonomies.

Chapter 7 Sampling Logic.

Chapter 8 Experimental Methods.

Chapter 9 Survey Research.

Chapter 10 Qualitative Field Research.

Chapter 11: Non-Interventional Studies.

Chapter 12 Evaluation Studies.

Chapter 13: Qualitative Data Analysis.

Chapter 14: Quantitative Data Analysis.

Chapter 15: A detailed analysis of the model.

Chapter 16 Social Statistics.

Chapter 17 Reading and Writing Social Studies.

Glossary. Index.