Social Science Research in New Zealand An Introduction

This book introduces readers to the range of theories, approaches and techniques required to understand New Zealand. Part one looks at how cultures gather knowledge, introduces readers to science, social science, Maori approaches, cross-cultural and feminist research, and ethics. Part two explains how to do a literature review, design, collect, and analyze quantitative and qualitative data, and write up the results. In part three, a number of prominent New Zealand social scientists show how research really gets done by explaining the use of key techniques in their own research projects.

Carl Davidson is former sociology lecturer at Massey University and currently Director of Strategy and Insight at Research First Ltd. Martin Tolich is associate professor of sociology at the University of Otago. The pair are co-authors of both Social Science Research in New Zealand (Pearson, 1999, 2003), and Getting Started: An Introduction to Research Methods (Pearson, 2011).