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A bug in the SPSS Student Version 16.0 was recently discovered and a hotfix is now available. This fix will enable chart creation using the Chart Builder or Interactive Graphs procedures in the SPSS Student Version 16.0. Click here to download the hotfix.
For installation instructions – now including a section on how the Student Version differs from the SPSS Base product, click here.
Congratulations to esteemed author Russell Schutt, 2007 recipient of University of Massachusetts, Boston's Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Service!
Note: Thistext comes with SPSS Student Version 14.0. To get the version without SPSS Student Version 14.0, please order ISBN: 978-14129-2734-5.
The most successful social research text to have been published in a generation has been updated and revised in this new Fifth Edition! This innovative, up-to-date, and popular text makes research come alive through research stories that illustrate the methods presented in each chapter, with hands-on exercises to help students learn by doing. Author Russell K. Schutt helps readers connect technique and substance, understand research methods as an integrated whole, appreciate the value of both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and make ethical research decisions.
Congratulations to esteemed author Russell Schutt, 2007 recipient of University of Massachusetts, Boston's Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Service!The most successful social research text to have been published in a generation has been updated and revised in this new ! This innovative, up-to-date, and popular text makes research come alive through research stories that illustrate the methods presented in each chapter, with hands-on exercises to help students learn by doing.Author Russell K. Schutt helps readers connect technique and substance, understand research methods as an integrated whole, appreciate the value of both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and make ethical research decisions.
Congratulations to esteemed author Russell Schutt, 2007 recipient of University of Massachusetts, Boston's Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Service!The most successful social research text to have been published in a generation has been updated and revised in this new ! This innovative, up-to-date, and popular text makes research come alive through research stories that illustrate the methods presented in each chapter, with hands-on exercises to help students learn by doing.Author Russell K. Schutt helps readers connect technique and substance, understand research methods as an integrated whole, appreciate the value of both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and make ethical research decisions.
New to the Fifth Edition:
Updates and Revisions: Research examples have been updated throughout the text, with many that have been added from international researchers. All end-of-chapter exercise sets have been updated. Techniques for searching and reviewing the literature and Web sites have been updated and more guidance is provided on writing the literature review. In addition, many chapters have been streamlined and reorganized for greater clarity, including those on measurement and causation and research design.
Secondary Data Analysis and Content Analysis: A new chapter introduces the logic and limitations of secondary data analysis, available data sources, procedures for using ICPSR datasets, the Human Relations Area Files, and more information on content analysis.
Qualitative Data Analysis: New sections have been added on conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, case-oriented understanding, and visual sociology. A special section on computer-assisted qualitative data analysis introduces the Hyper RESEARCH software that accompanies the text.
Theories and Philosophies for Research: A revised and streamlined chapter uses international research on immigration and ethnic conflict to illustrate functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism and to contrast positivist and interpretivist research philosophies. Unique among methods texts, this chapter emphasizes the importance of social theory and research philosophy as a foundation for social research.
Research Ethics: New sections have been added in some chapters and the discussion of the role of the IRB in the third chapter has been expanded.
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Student Resources CD: bundled with the book, contains wide-ranging data sets and interactive exercises to help students master concepts and techniques.
Hyper RESEARCH software: includes software for qualitative data analysis.
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Meet the Author
Russell K. Schutt, Ph D, is professor and chair of sociology and director of the graduate program in applied sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and lecturer on sociology in the Department of Psychiatry (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) at the Harvard Medical School (Massachusetts Mental Health Center). He completed his BA, MA, and Ph D (1977) degrees at the University of Illinois at Chicago and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Sociology of Social Control Training Program at Yale University (1977–1979). In addition to Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research, now in its Seventh Edition, Making Sense of the Social World, now in its Fourth Edition (with Dan Chambliss), and a specialized coauthored versions for the fields of psychology, social work, and education (with Ray Engel), he is the author most recently of Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Illness (Harvard University Press), as well as Organization in a Changing Environment, co-editor of The Organizational Response to Social Problems, and co-author of Responding to the Homeless: Policy and Practice. He has authored and coauthored numerous journal articles, book chapters, and research reports on criminal justice, homelessness, service preferences and satisfaction, mental health, organizations, law, and teaching research methods. His research has been funded by the recently directed a large translational research project at the Harvard Medical School for the Women’s Health Network of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and is currently a co-investigator in a the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Fetzer Institute (a study of a violence reduction program), and local sources.
Science, Society, and Social Research Learning About the Social World Avoiding Errors in Reasoning About the Social World Science, Social Science and Pseudoscience Social Research Goals Strengths and Limitations of Social Research Conclusions Theories and Philosophies for Social Research Theoretical Perspectives in Social Science Social Research Philosophies Conclusions The Process and Problems of Social Research Social Research Questions Social Research Foundations Social Research Strategies Social Research Ethics Social Research Proposals, Part I Conclusions Conceptualization and Measurement Concepts Measurement Operations Levels of Measurement Evaluating Measures Conclusions Sampling Sample Planning Sampling Methods Sampling Distributions Conclusions Causation and Research Design Causal Explanation Research Designs and Criteria for Causal Explanation Conclusions Experiments True Experiments Quasi-Experiments Nonexperiments Validity in Experiments Ethical Issues in Experimental Research Conclusions Survey Research Survey Research in the Social Sciences Writing Questions Combining Questions in Indexes Designing Questionnaires Organizing Surveys Combining Methods Ethical Issues in Survey Research Conclusions Qualitative Methods: Observing, Participating, Listening Fundamentals of Qualitative Methods Participant Observation Systematic Observation Intensive Interviewing Focus Groups Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research Conclusions Qualitative Data Analysis Features of Qualitative Data Analysis Techniques of Qualitative Data Analysis Alternatives in Qualitative Data Analysis Visual Sociology Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Ethics in Qualitative Data Analysis Conclusions Evaluation Research History of Evaluation Research Evaluation Basics Questions for Evaluation Research Design Decisions Ethics in Evaluation Conclusions Historical and Comparative Research Overview of Unobtrusive Methods for Comparative and Historical Research Historical Social Science Methods Comparative Social Science Methods Demographic Analysis Methodological Complications Ethical Issues in Historical and Comparative Research Conclusions Secondary Data and Content Analysis Secondary Data Sources Challenges for Secondary Data Analyses Content Analysis Ethical Issues in Secondary Data Analysis and Content Analysis Conclusions Quantitative Data Analysis Introducing Statistics Preparing Data for Analysis Displaying Univariate Distributions Summarizing Univariate Distributions Analyzing Data Ethically: How Not to Lie With Statistics Crosstabulating Variables Regression Analysis Analyzing Data Ethically: How Not to Lie About Relationships Conclusions Reporting Research Social Research Proposals, Part II Comparing Research Designs Writing Research Reporting Research Ethics, Politics, and Research Reports Conclusions
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A bug in the SPSS Student Version 16.0 was recently discovered and a hotfix is now available. This fix will enable chart creation using the Chart Builder or Interactive Graphs procedures in the SPSS Student Version 16.0. Click here to download the hotfix.
For installation instructions – now including a section on how the Student Version differs from the SPSS Base product, click here.
Congratulations to esteemed author Russell Schutt, 2007 recipient of University of Massachusetts, Boston's Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Service!
Note: Thistext comes with SPSS Student Version 14.0. To get the version without SPSS Student Version 14.0, please order ISBN: 978-14129-2734-5.
The most successful social research text to have been published in a generation has been updated and revised in this new Fifth Edition! This innovative, up-to-date, and popular text makes research come alive through research stories that illustrate the methods presented in each chapter, with hands-on exercises to help students learn by doing. Author Russell K. Schutt helps readers connect technique and substance, understand research methods as an integrated whole, appreciate the value of both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and make ethical research decisions.
Congratulations to esteemed author Russell Schutt, 2007 recipient of University of Massachusetts, Boston's Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Service!The most successful social research text to have been published in a generation has been updated and revised in this new ! This innovative, up-to-date, and popular text makes research come alive through research stories that illustrate the methods presented in each chapter, with hands-on exercises to help students learn by doing.Author Russell K. Schutt helps readers connect technique and substance, understand research methods as an integrated whole, appreciate the value of both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and make ethical research decisions.
Congratulations to esteemed author Russell Schutt, 2007 recipient of University of Massachusetts, Boston's Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Service!The most successful social research text to have been published in a generation has been updated and revised in this new ! This innovative, up-to-date, and popular text makes research come alive through research stories that illustrate the methods presented in each chapter, with hands-on exercises to help students learn by doing.Author Russell K. Schutt helps readers connect technique and substance, understand research methods as an integrated whole, appreciate the value of both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and make ethical research decisions.
New to the Fifth Edition:
Accompanied by High-Quality Ancillaries!
Click on 'Sample Materials and Chapters' at left to access the GSS Mini Data Files. You need access to the Student SPSS program to use these data sets. These GSS Mini Data Files replaces the data set currently found on the Student Resource CD.
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Meet the Author
Russell K. Schutt, Ph D, is professor and chair of sociology and director of the graduate program in applied sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and lecturer on sociology in the Department of Psychiatry (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) at the Harvard Medical School (Massachusetts Mental Health Center). He completed his BA, MA, and Ph D (1977) degrees at the University of Illinois at Chicago and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Sociology of Social Control Training Program at Yale University (1977–1979). In addition to Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research, now in its Seventh Edition, Making Sense of the Social World, now in its Fourth Edition (with Dan Chambliss), and a specialized coauthored versions for the fields of psychology, social work, and education (with Ray Engel), he is the author most recently of Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Illness (Harvard University Press), as well as Organization in a Changing Environment, co-editor of The Organizational Response to Social Problems, and co-author of Responding to the Homeless: Policy and Practice. He has authored and coauthored numerous journal articles, book chapters, and research reports on criminal justice, homelessness, service preferences and satisfaction, mental health, organizations, law, and teaching research methods. His research has been funded by the recently directed a large translational research project at the Harvard Medical School for the Women’s Health Network of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and is currently a co-investigator in a the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Fetzer Institute (a study of a violence reduction program), and local sources.
Table of Contents
Science, Society, and Social Research Learning About the Social World Avoiding Errors in Reasoning About the Social World Science, Social Science and Pseudoscience Social Research Goals Strengths and Limitations of Social Research Conclusions Theories and Philosophies for Social Research Theoretical Perspectives in Social Science Social Research Philosophies Conclusions The Process and Problems of Social Research Social Research Questions Social Research Foundations Social Research Strategies Social Research Ethics Social Research Proposals, Part I Conclusions Conceptualization and Measurement Concepts Measurement Operations Levels of Measurement Evaluating Measures Conclusions Sampling Sample Planning Sampling Methods Sampling Distributions Conclusions Causation and Research Design Causal Explanation Research Designs and Criteria for Causal Explanation Conclusions Experiments True Experiments Quasi-Experiments Nonexperiments Validity in Experiments Ethical Issues in Experimental Research Conclusions Survey Research Survey Research in the Social Sciences Writing Questions Combining Questions in Indexes Designing Questionnaires Organizing Surveys Combining Methods Ethical Issues in Survey Research Conclusions Qualitative Methods: Observing, Participating, Listening Fundamentals of Qualitative Methods Participant Observation Systematic Observation Intensive Interviewing Focus Groups Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research Conclusions Qualitative Data Analysis Features of Qualitative Data Analysis Techniques of Qualitative Data Analysis Alternatives in Qualitative Data Analysis Visual Sociology Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Ethics in Qualitative Data Analysis Conclusions Evaluation Research History of Evaluation Research Evaluation Basics Questions for Evaluation Research Design Decisions Ethics in Evaluation Conclusions Historical and Comparative Research Overview of Unobtrusive Methods for Comparative and Historical Research Historical Social Science Methods Comparative Social Science Methods Demographic Analysis Methodological Complications Ethical Issues in Historical and Comparative Research Conclusions Secondary Data and Content Analysis Secondary Data Sources Challenges for Secondary Data Analyses Content Analysis Ethical Issues in Secondary Data Analysis and Content Analysis Conclusions Quantitative Data Analysis Introducing Statistics Preparing Data for Analysis Displaying Univariate Distributions Summarizing Univariate Distributions Analyzing Data Ethically: How Not to Lie With Statistics Crosstabulating Variables Regression Analysis Analyzing Data Ethically: How Not to Lie About Relationships Conclusions Reporting Research Social Research Proposals, Part II Comparing Research Designs Writing Research Reporting Research Ethics, Politics, and Research Reports Conclusions