Research methods in the social sciences: A quest for relevant approaches for Africa

 Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Preface

Section One 

• Introduction: Research Methods in the Social Sciences: An Overview

Bashir Omer Mohamed Fadlalla 

• Social Science Research in Africa: A Review of Methods and Ethics

                    D. K. Ndagala 

• The Recency and Immediacy of Political Science: Some Implications for Research

Akiiki B. Mujaju 

• The African Household in Socio-economic Change: A Conceptual Problem in Research

Edward K. Mburugu 

• Research Methodology and the Competence of Social Scientists in Depicting Reality: Some odd Facts from Rural Sudan

Mohamed A. Mohamed Salih 

Section Two 

• Sampling Errors from Socio-economic Baseline survey in an Ethiopian Rural Setting

Asmerom Kidane 

• Village Surveys as a Primary Source of Data for Testing Hypothesis in Rural/Rural Migration in Sudan

Khalid Affan 

• An Approach to the use of Scaling in Sensitivity Analysis

Bashir Omer Mohamed Fadlalla 

• The Problem of Social Science Research in Developing Societies: With Examples from Survey of Zairean Refugees in Tanzania

B.C. Nindi 

Section Three 

• Methodological Issues in Research on Public Administration in Uganda: Problems and Prospects of Documentation

                    George Washington Matovu 

• Methodological Issues in Administrative Research in Africa  

Walter Ouma Oyugi 

• Researching on the History of Labour

F.J. Kaijage

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