Perspectives in Social Research Methods and Analysis : A Reader for Sociology

by Howard Lune

• ISBN13: 9781412967396
• ISBN10: 1412967392
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-30
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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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