Readings in Social Research Methods / Edition 3

by Diane Kholos Wysocki

Overview

This reader is designed to accompany any main text in research methods or be used as a stand-alone reader. It has been closely patterned on the range of topics covered in Earl Babbie's best selling texts, THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL RESEARCH, 11/e and BASICS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH, 4/e. The reader focuses on the core methodologies of the social research methods course and provides illustrations of those methods. The articles describe real world applications and research and show students how research is conducted and reported.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780495093374
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	04/17/2007
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Diane Kholos Wysocki grew up in Denver, CO and spent 8 years working as a surgical technician before starting college. She received her bachelor's degree in Psychology with a minor in sociology at Arizona State University and her MA and Ph.D. in sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Dr. Wysocki is now an Associate Professor of Sociology and the Director of Women's Studies at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents. PART I AN INTRODUCTION TO INQUIRY. Ch. 1: Here We Go! Get Ready to Find out Why You Should Learn About Research Methods. 1. From the Sociological Imagination, C. Wright Mills. 2. The Reality of Everyday Life, Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann. Ch. 2: Research and Theory: They Go Hand in Hand. 3. School Tracking and Student Violence, Lissa J. Yogan. 4. Murder Followed by Suicide in Australia, 1973-1992: A Research Note, Jo Barnes. Ch. 3: Ethics: You Must Have Ethics in Life and Especially In Research. 5. Taking Names: The Ethics of Indirect Recruitment in Research on Sexual Networks, Lewis H. Margolis. 6. The Ethics of Conducting Social-Science Research on the Internet, James C. Hamilton. 7. Code of Ethics, American Sociological Association. PART II THE STRUCTURING OF INQUIRY. Ch. 4: Research Design: Now it's Time to Plan. 8. Public Assistance Receipt Among Immigrants and Natives: How the Unit of Analysis Affects Research Findings, Jennifer Van Hook, Jennifer E. Glick, and Frank D. Bean. 9. Consequences of Participating in a Longitudinal Study of Marriage, Joseph Veroff, Shirley Hatchett, and Elizabeth Douvan. Ch. 5: Conceptualization and Operationalization: We Have to Explain What We are Studying. 10. An epidemiological survey on the presence of toxic chemicals in soaps and cosmetics used by adolescent female students from a Nigerian University, Obuekwe; Ifeyinwa Flossy; Ochei Uche Mabel; M. Pharm. 11. Conceptualization of Terrorism, Jack P. Gibbs. Ch. 6: Indexes and Scales: Now we get to measure it all! 12. A study of differences in business ethical values in Mainland China, the U.S. and Jamaica, Lillian Y. Fok; Sandra J. Hartman; Kern Kwong. 13. The Reverse Social Distance Scale. Motoko Y. Lee, Stephen G. Sapp, and Melvin C. Ray. Ch. 7: Sampling Made Easy. 14. Sex in America, Robert T. Michael, John H. Gagnon, Edward O. Laumann, and Gina Kolata. 15. The Eurowinter project: the use of market/social research methods in an international scientific study, Colin McDonald. PART III MODES OF OBSERVATIONS. Ch. 8: Experimental and Survey Research: Putting it all Together. 16. Prepaid monetary incentives and data quality in face-to-face interviews: data from the 1996 survey of income and program participation incentive experiment, Michael Davern; Todd H. Rockwood; Randy Sherrod; Stephen Campbell. 17. Sex in America-The Sex Survey, Robert T. Michael, John H. Gagnon, Edward O. Laumann, and Gina Kolata. 18. The Internet and Opinion Measurement: Surveying Marginalized Populations, Nadine S. Koch and Jolly A. Emrey. Ch. 9: Field Research and Unobtrusive Measures: Fun in the Field. 19. Comparisons between Thai adolescent voices and Thai adolescent health literature, Vipavee Thongpriwan; Beverly J. McElmurry. 20. Amateur Stripping and Gaming Encounters: Fun in Games or Gaming as Fun?, Julie Ann Harms Cannon, Thomas C. Calhoun, and Rhonda Fisher. 21. Thinking Through the Heart, Ann Goetting. Ch. 10: Existing Data and Evaluation Research: Let's find out what works. 22. What Sociologists Do and Where They Do It-The NSF Survey on Sociologist's Work Activities and Workplaces, Robert J. Dotzler and Ross Koppel. 23. Professors Who Make the Grade (Factors That Affect Students'' Grades. of Professors), Vicky L. Seiler and Michael J. Seiler. Appendix: Writing and Reading a Research Paper. 24. Construction of Masculinity: A Look into the Lives of Heterosexual Male Transvestites, Diane Kholos Wysocki. Glossary.