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SAGE Research Methods: Little Green & Blue Books

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What are Little Green Books and Little Blue Books?

The Little Green Books are SAGE's famous series - Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences (QASS).  For more than 30 years, the QASS series has been a cutting-edge resource for the latest quantitative techniques.

SAGE's Qualitative Research Methods series, or the Little Blue Books, is designed to teach novice researchers about specific modes of social inquiry, as well as widening the range of social science methods used by experienced researchers.  

Finding Little Green & Blue Books

SRM has the complete Little Green and Little Blue Book series online.  Browse the Little Green or Blue Book collections by clicking on the links under I want to....  Remember that Green books focus on quantitative and Blue books focus on qualitative methods.