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Making Sense of the Social World
Methods of Investigation
Sixth Edition
- Daniel F. Chambliss - Hamilton College, USA
- Russell K. Schutt - University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
December 2018 | 432 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop.
Congratulations to Daniel F. Chambliss, winner of the ASA Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Prize for 2018.The new Sixth Edition of Making Sense of the Social World continues to be an unusually accessible and student-friendly introduction to the variety of social research methods, guiding undergraduate readers to understand research in their roles as consumers and novice producers of social science. Known for its concise, casual, and clear writing, its balanced treatment of quantitative and qualitative approaches, and its integrated approach to the fundamentals, the text has much to offer both novice researchers and more advanced students alike. The authors use a wide variety of examples from formal studies and everyday experiences to illustrate important principles and techniques.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Chapter 1. Science, Society, and Social Research
Chapter 2. The Process and Problems of Social Research
Chapter 3. Ethics in Research
Chapter 4. Conceptualization and Measurement
Chapter 5. Sampling and Generalizability
Chapter 6. Causation and Experimental Design
Chapter 7. Survey Research
Chapter 8. Elementary Quantitative Data Analysis
Chapter 9. Qualitative Methods: Observing, Participating, Listening
Chapter 10. Qualitative Data Analysis
Chapter 11. Unobtrusive Measures
Chapter 12. Evaluation Research
Chapter 13. Reviewing, Proposing, and Reporting Research
GLOSSARY
APPENDIX A: FINDING INFORMATION
REFERENCES
INDEX
Supplements
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