The art and science of social research /
Deborah Carr, Elizabeth Heger Boyle, Benjamin Cornwell, Shelley Correll, Robert Crosnoe, Jeremy Freese, Mary C. Waters
- Second edition
- New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, 2021.
- xxxii, 481, A-21, G-15, B-42, C-4, I-20 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
"Written by a team of renowned sociologists with experience in both the field and the classroom, The Art and Science of Social Research offers authoritative, accessible, and balanced coverage of the methods used to study the social world. The authors highlight the challenges of investigating the unpredictable topic of human lives while providing insights into what really happens in the field, the laboratory, and the survey call center. A streamlined Second Edition is now accompanied by three new InQuizitive activities and writing tutorials that help students master the building blocks of research and hone key writing skills"-- Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographical references and index
The art and science of social research : an introduction -- Research foundations : linking sociological theory to research -- Ethical issues in social science research -- From concepts to models : hypotheses, operationalization, and measurement -- Evaluating research : reliability and validity -- Sampling strategies -- Survey research -- Experimental research -- Evaluation research -- Ethnography -- In-depth interviewing -- Materials-based methods -- Univariate and bivariate analysis of quantitative data -- Communicating social science research findings -- Social network analysis -- Multivariate and advanced quantitative methods -- Analysis of qualitative data
"Show your students how social research really unfolds. Written by a team of renowned sociologists with experience in both the field and the classroom, The Art and Science of Social Research offers authoritative, accessible, and balanced coverage of the methods used to study the social world. The authors highlight the challenges of investigating the unpredictable topic of human lives while providing insights into what really happens in the field, the laboratory, and the survey call center. A streamlined Second Edition is now accompanied by three new InQuizitive activities and writing tutorials that help students master the building blocks of research and hone key writing skills."--