Students' conceptions-and misconceptions-of social research

Qualitative Sociology Review

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 5-25

  Kawulich, Barbara ^a   Garner, Mark W J ^b   Wagner, Claire ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Conceptions; Phenomenography; Social research methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649121652     PISSN: 17338077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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