Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research / Edition 6

Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research / Edition 6

by Russell K. Schutt
ISBN-10:
1412969409
ISBN-13:
9781412969406
Pub. Date:
11/04/2008
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
ISBN-10:
1412969409
ISBN-13:
9781412969406
Pub. Date:
11/04/2008
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research / Edition 6

Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research / Edition 6

by Russell K. Schutt
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Overview

Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research, Tenth Edition provides the critical skills necessary to evaluate and carry out research. Each chapter integrates instruction in the core research methods with investigation of interesting aspects of the social world, including updated examples to reflect the tumultuous world since 2020. Russell K. Schutt seeks to communicate the excitement of social research and the importance of carefully evaluating the methods used in that research.

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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781412969406
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 11/04/2008
Edition description: Sixth Edition
Pages: 728
Product dimensions: 7.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Russell K. Schutt, Ph D, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston; Clinical Research Scientist I at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; and Lecturer (part-time) in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. He completed his BA, MA, and Ph D degrees at the University of Illinois at Chicago and his postdoctoral fellowship in the Sociology of Social Control Training Program at Yale University. In addition to co-authoring The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice and Fundamentals of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice (with Ronet Bachman), he is the author of Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research and Understanding the Social World: Research Methods for the 21st Century, and co-author of Making Sense of the Social World (with Dan Chambliss), Research Methods in Psychology (with Paul G. Nestor), The Practice of Research in Social Work and Fundamentals of Social Work Research (with Ray Engel), and Research Methods in Education (with Joseph Check), all with SAGE Publications, as well as author of Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Illness and Organization in a Changing Environment, coeditor of Social Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society and of The Organizational Response to Social Problems, and coauthor of Responding to the Homeless: Policy and Practice. He has authored and coauthored more than 65 peer-reviewed journal articles as well as many book chapters and research reports on homelessness, mental health, service preferences and satisfaction, organizations, and the sociology of law. His current and most recent research includes a $200,000 National Science Foundation-funded study of the social impact of the pandemic in Boston, with collaborators at the Center for Survey Research (UMass Boston) and Northeastern University, a $3.8 million randomized comparative effectiveness trial of two socially-oriented interventions to improve community functioning among persons diagnosed with serious mental illness, funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with collaborators at the Harvard Medical School, and a $1 million Veterans Health Administration-funded study of peer support with colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the VA. His past research has been funded by the National Cancer Institute, the Veterans Health Administration, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Fetzer Institute, and state agencies. Details are available at https://blogs.umb.edu/russellkschutt/.

Table of Contents

Section I. Foundations for Social Research
1. Science, Society, and Social Research
2. The Process and Problems of Social Research
3. Research Ethics and Research Proposals
Section II. Fundamentals of Social Research
4. Conceptualization and Measurement
5. Sampling and Generalizability
6. Research Design and Causation
Section III. Basic Social Research Designs
7. Experiments
8. Survey Research
9. Quantitative Data Analysis
10. Qualitative Methods
11. Qualitative Data Analysis
Section IV. Complex Social Research Designs
12. Mixed Methods
13. Evaluation and Policy Research
14. Research Using Secondary Data and “Big” Data
15. Research Using Historical and Comparative Data and Content Analysis
16. Summarizing and Reporting Research
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