Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research - Brossura

Schutt, Russell K.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0761988130 ISBN 13: 9780761988137

Casa editrice: Pine Forge Pr, 2003

Riassunto

The Fourth Edition of Russell Schutt's successful social research text, Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research, links the "doing" of social research to important social issues, including research on the Internet and social relations, substance abuse, homelessness, and gender roles.

The Fourth Edition now includes a new chapter on evaluation research (Chapter 10) and a new, comprehensive qualitative data and content analysis chapter (Chapter 13). The qualitative analysis software integrated into the text and CD is now from HyperRESEARCH and an expanded, comprehensive Instructor's Resource CD containing PowerPoint slide sets for each chapter, test questions, illustrations from the book for transparency masters, and much more is available.

Investigating the Social World is an engaging, accessible introductory text for research methods courses in sociology, criminal justice, social work, communication and journalism, and political science and public administration.

 

 

 

 

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L'autore

Russell K. Schutt, PhD, is a professor and the chair of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and a lecturer on sociology in the Department of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School (Massachusetts Mental Health Center). He completed his BA, MA, and PhD (1977) at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a postdoctoral fellowship in the Sociology of Social Control Training Program at Yale University (1977–1979). His other books include Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research and Fundamentals of Social Work Research (with Ray Engel), Making Sense of the Social World (with Dan Chambliss), and Research Methods in Psychology (with Paul G. Nestor)―all with SAGE Publications, as well as Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Illness (Harvard University Press) and Social Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society (coedited with Larry J. Seidman and Matcheri S. Keshavan, also Harvard University Press). Most of his peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters focus on the effect of social context on cognition, satisfaction, functioning, and recidivism, the orientations of service recipients and of service and criminal justice personnel, and the organization of health and social services. He is currently a coinvestigator for a randomized trial of peer support for homeless dually diagnosed veterans, funded by the Veterans Administration.

Contenuti

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. SCIENCE, SOCIETY, AND SOCIAL RESEARCH
LEARNING ABOUT THE SOCIAL WORLD
THE SOCIAL SCIENCE APPROACH
SOCIAL RESEARCH GOALS
STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH
CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 2. 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
Chapter 3. THEORIES AND PHILOSOPHIES FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
THE ORIGINS OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES IN SOCIAL SCIENCE
SOCIAL RESEARCH PHILOSOPHIES
EXTENDING SOCIAL SCIENCE INVESTIGATIONS
CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 4. CONCEPTUALIZATION AND MEASUREMENT
CONCEPTS
MEASUREMENT OPERATIONS
LEVELS OF MEASUREMENT
EVALUATING MEASURES
CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 5. SAMPLING
SAMPLE PLANNING
SAMPLING METHODS
SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS
CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 6. CAUSATION AND RESEARCH DESIGN
TIME ORDER AND RESEARCH DESIGN
UNITS OF ANALYSIS AND ERRORS IN CAUSAL REASONING
THE MEANING OF EXPLANATION
RESEARCH DESIGNS AND CRITERIA FOR CAUSAL EXPLANATION
CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 7. EXPERIMENTS
TRUE EXPERIMENTS
QUASI-EXPERIMENTS
NON-EXPERIMENTS
VALIDITY IN EXPERIMENTS
COMBINING METHODS
ETHICAL ISSUES IN EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 8. SURVEY RESEARCH
SURVEY RESEARCH IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
WRITING QUESTIONS
DESIGNING QUESTIONNAIRES
ORGANIZING SURVEYS
COMBINING METHODS
ETHICAL ISSUES IN SURVEY RESEARCH
CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 9. QUALITATIVE METHODS: OBSERVING, PARTICIPATING, LISTENING
FUNDAMENTALS OF QUALITATIVE METHODS
PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION
SYSTEMATIC OBSERVATION
INTENSIVE INTERVIEWING
FOCUS GROUPS
ETHICAL ISSUES IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 10. EVALUATION RESEARCH
BACKGROUND
EVALUATION BASICS
EVALUATION FOCI
DESIGN ALTERNATIVES
ETHICS IN EVALUATION
CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 11. HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE METHODS
OVERVIEW OF COMPARATIVE-HISTORICAL METHODS
HISTORICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE METHODS
COMPARATIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE METHODS
METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
SPECIAL TECHNIQUES
SECONDARY DATA SOURCES
ETHICAL ISSUES IN COMPARATIVE-HISTORICAL RESEARCH
NEW REFERENCES
Chapter 12. 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
REGRESSING VARIABLES
ANALYZING DATA ETHICALLY: HOW NOT TO LIE ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 13. QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS AND CONTENT ANALYSIS
FEATURES OF QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS
TECHNIQUES OF QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS
ALTERNATIVES IN QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS
COMPUTER ASSISTED QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS
CONTENT ANALYSIS
ETHICS IN QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS
CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 14. Reporting Research
Proposing New Research, Part II
Case Study: Treating Substance Abuse
Comparing Research Designs
Writing Research
Reporting Research
Ethics. Politics and Research Reports
Conclusions
REFERENCES
APPENDIX A: SUMMARIES OF FREQUENTLY CITED RESEARCH ARTICLES
APPENDIX B: QUESTIONS TO ASK ABOUT A RESEARCH ARTICLE
APPENDIX C: HOW TO READ A RESEARCH ARTICLE
APPENDIX D: FINDING INFORMATION
APPENDIX E: TABLE OF RANDOM NUMBERS
APPENDIX F: HOW TO USE A STATISTICAL PACKAGE
APPENDIX G: HOW TO USE A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS PACKAGE
APPENDIX H: ANNOTATED LIST OF WEB SITES

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Pine Forge Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0761988130
• ISBN 13: 9780761988137
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 4
• Numero di pagine: 474