Book review: Designing Social Research: The Logic of Anticipation

Designing Social Research: The Logic of Anticipation especially focuses on quantitive social research design. The book's objective is the introduction of main elements in conducting research in social sciences. Also, it provides an appropriate review on issues that students, professors and researchers of social science face in designing their research or thesis. Using technical terms of research methodology, unambiguous diction and comprehensive elaboration all prove the efficiency of the author in writing such a scientific work. Most of the book has the sufficient literature review and its evolution. The author, Norman Blaikie starts his introduction with preliminaries of research and its details. Introducing The Logic of Anticipation, pointing out the role of theory in social science research, providing critical understanding of research principles are among main objectives of this book. Finally, book presents four topics related to social research as examples for research in four paradigms (inductive, deductive, reproductive and abductive).