Perspectives in Social Research Methods and

This book shows students the steps involved in the research process, the various strategies for conducting a valid social inquiry, and most importantly, the persuasiveness and elegance of reliable social research. It highlights the link between academic research and the real world.Included are carefully chosen examples of each of the major methodological techniques-survey, interviews, fieldwork observations, experiments, content analysis, secondary analysis and program evaluation. Also included are selections on sampling strategies, research ethics and both qualitative and quantitative data analysis.

Where To Begin
Comparative Perspectives and Competing Explanations: Taking on the Newly Configured Reductionist Challenge to Sociology (2006)
Great Divides: The Cultural, Cognitive, and Social Bases of the Global Subordination of Women (2007)
The Positive Functions of Poverty (1975)
Theodicy and Life Satisfaction Among Black and White Americans (2000)
Research Design
Conceptualizing Urban Poverty (1995)
Conceptualizing Work-Family Balance: Implications for Practice and Research (2007)
The Violence of Adolescent Life: Experiencing and Managing Everyday Threats (2004)
Ethics in Social Research
Code of Ethics Policies and Procedures of the ASA Committee on Professional Ethics (1997)
Policies and Procedures (1997)
Project Camelot and the 1960s Epistemological Revolution: Rethinking the Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus (2001)
Quantitative Data Collection
Mapping Global Values (2006)
Measuring Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): You May Only Get What You Ask For (2005)
Ethnicity, Gender, and Perceptions of Task Competence (1990)
Qualitative Data Collection
Religion and Immigration in Comparative Perspective: Catholic and Evangelical Salvadorans in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Phoenix (2004)
A Focus Group Study of the Motivation to Invest: "Ethical/Green" and "Ordinary" Investors Compared (2001)
The Pub and the People [Excerpt] (1942)
"Afterword" From Sidewalk by Mitch Duneier (2000)
Quantitative Data Analysis
Gender Bias in the 1996 Olympic Games: A Comparative Analysis (2003)
Residential Segregation on the Island: The Role of Race and Class in Puerto Rican Neighborhoods (2007)
Qualitative Data Analysis
Weathering the Storm: Nonprofit Organization Survival Strategies in a Hostile Climate (2002)
Social Context and Musical Content of Rap Music, 1979-1995 (2006)
The Changing Culture of Fatherhood in Comic-Strip Families: A Six-Decade Analysis (2000)
Mixed Methods
Theorizing Disaster: Analogy, Historical Ethnography, and the Challenger Accident (2004)
Men and Women's Experiences with Hazing in a Male-Dominated Elite Military Institution (2006)
The World-System After the Cold War (1993)
Last Word
Glossary
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Perspectives in Social Research Methods and Analysis : A Reader for Sociology

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