Investigating the Social World- Vantage Learning Platform

The Process and Practice of Research

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NEW & KEY FEATURES OF Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research, Tenth Edition 

• Updated examples of social research in real-world settings reflect the era of the COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter, threats to democracy, online social connections, and more.
• The latest advances in research methods are integrated into the text with over 80 new research articles and 17 new books cited on latest developments and current events. New coverage reflects more emphasis on culturally responsive research ethics, increased attention to systematic literature reviews and the latest advances in respondent-drive sampling and the challenges of the 2020 U.S. Census. New guidance has been added on the on visual ethnography, coding qualitative data, while the coverage of Big Data has been expanded.
• Exercises have been updated and those involving IBM SPSS® software have been revised for use with the 2020 General Social Survey (GSS) data set.
• Every chapter contains updated tables and figures.
• Learning objectives have been added to the start of each chapter, all adhering to Bloom's Taxonomy of objectives and including a mix of both lower-level and higher-level cognitive skills.
• A Research in the News story with discussion questions is featured in every chapter.
• End-of-chapter pedagogy includes chapter summaries and updated discussion questions.