Adventures in Social Research: Data Analysis Using IBM SPSS Statistics - Brossura

Babbie, Earl R.; Halley, Fred; Wagner, William E., III; Zaino, Jeanne

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ISBN 10: 1452205582 ISBN 13: 9781452205588

Casa editrice: Sage Pubns, 2012

Riassunto

Written by esteemed social science research authors, Adventures in Social Research: Data Analysis Using IBM® SPSS® Statistics, Eighth Edition encourages students to practice SPSS as they read about it and provides a practical, hands-on introduction to conceptualization, measurement, and association through active learning. This fully revised workbook will guide students through step-by-step instruction on data analysis using the latest version of SPSS and the most up to date General Social Survey data. Arranged to parallel most introductory research methods texts, this text starts with an introduction to computerized data analysis and the social research process, then walks readers step-by-step through univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analysis using SPSS Statistics. In this revised edition, active and collaborative learning will be emphasized as students engage in a series of practical investigative exercises.

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L'autore:

Earl Babbie was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1938, but his family chose to return to Vermont 3 months later, and he grew up there and in New Hampshire. In 1956, he set off for Harvard Yard, where he spent the next 4 years learning more than he initially planned. After 3 years with the US Marine Corps, mostly in Asia, he began graduate studies at the University of California—Berkeley. He received his PhD from Berkeley in 1969. He taught sociology at the University of Hawaii from 1968 through 1979, took time off from teaching and research to write full-time for 8 years, and then joined the faculty at Chapman University in Southern California in 1987. Although he is the author of several research articles and monographs, he is best known for the many textbooks he has written, which have been widely adopted in colleges throughout the United States and the world. He also has been active in the American Sociological Association for 25 years and currently serves on the ASA’s executive committee. He is also past president of the Pacific Sociological Association and California Sociological Association.

Contenuti:

Preface
About the Author
PART I. PREPARING FOR DATA ANALYSIS
1. Introduction: The Theory and Practice of Social Research
2. The Logic of Measurement
3. Description of Data Sets: The General Social Survey (GSS)
PART II. UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS
4. Using SPSS Statistics: Some Basics
5. Describing Your Data: Religiosity
6. Presenting Your Data in Graphic Form: Political Orientations
7. Recoding Your Data: Religiosity and Political Orientations
8. Creating Composite Measures: Exploring Attitudes Toward Abortion in More Depth
9. Suggestions for Further Analysis
PART III. BIVARIATE ANALYSIS
10. Examining the Sources of Religiosity
11. Political Orientations as Cause and Effect
12. What Causes Different Attitudes Toward Abortion?
13. Measures of Association for Nominal and Ordinal Variables
14. Regression and Correlation Analysis
15. Tests of Significance
16. Suggestions for Further Bivariate Analyses
PART IV. MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
17. Multiple Causation: Examining Religiosity in Greater Depth
18. Dissecting the Political Factor
19. A Powerful Prediction of Attitudes Toward Abortion
20. Suggestions for Further Multivariate Analyses
PART V. THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES
21. Designing and Executing Your Own Survey
22. Further Opportunities for Social Research
Appendix A: The Codebook
Appendix B: Questionnaire for Class Survey
Index/Glossary

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• Editore: Sage Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1452205582
• ISBN 13: 9781452205588
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 456