Doing Social Research - Baker, Therese L
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This third edition of Therese L. Baker's popular text, Doing Social Research offers a hands-on, step-by-step approach to social research that combines authoritative content, effective pedagogy, and an engaging writing style. To that end, the author includes real, classic and contemporary research studies, as well as interviews with the authors of these studies, to personalize the experience of doing social research, and keep students interested and motivated. Baker exposes students to a broad range of research methods, encouraging them to explore the rich universe of social research. In this…mehr

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This third edition of Therese L. Baker's popular text, Doing Social Research offers a hands-on, step-by-step approach to social research that combines authoritative content, effective pedagogy, and an engaging writing style. To that end, the author includes real, classic and contemporary research studies, as well as interviews with the authors of these studies, to personalize the experience of doing social research, and keep students interested and motivated. Baker exposes students to a broad range of research methods, encouraging them to explore the rich universe of social research. In this text, Baker encourages a sense of commitment to doing social research. She exposes students to the choices, the challenges, and the excitement of trying to study some piece of social action, and encourages students to believe that they can become social researchers. Doing Social Research, Third Edition is the answer for sociology and social science students who need a practical understanding of today's key research theories and techniques.

Table of contents:
Part One The Foundations of Social Research Introduction Chapter 1 Varieties of Social Research Chapter 2 Science and Theory in Social Research Part Two The Design of Social Research Chapter 3 Defining, Designing, and Developing a Research Project Chapter 4 Operationalization and Measurement: From Concepts to Variables Chapter 5 Sampling Part Three The Methods of Social Research Chapter 6 Experimental Research Chapter 7 Survey Research, Interviewing Techniques and Focus Groups Chapter 8 Field Research and Observational Studies Chapter 9 Methods of Analyzing Available Data Chapter 10 Evaluation Research and Case Studies Part Four The Analysis of Social Research Data Chapter 11 Ways of Analyzing Quantitative Data Chapter 12 Univariate, Bivariate, Trivariate, and Multivariate Analyses Chapter 13 Statistics and Social Research Part Five Making Social Research Public Chapter 14 The Politics and Ethics of Social Research Chapter 15 Presenting the Research Results Appendix A: Using an Electronic Library for Social Research Appendix B: Table of Random Numbers and Chi-Square Distribution Appendix C: SPSS 95 for Windows: Generating the Tables for this Text References Glossary Acknowledgments Index
Autorenporträt
Therese L. Baker has taught social research methods since 1975. She is one of the twelve founding members of California State University, San Marcos, founded in 1989, where she is currently program director in sociology and in social science. She received her undergraduate education at Cornell University and her graduate education at University of Chicago. She was a member of the sociology department at De Paul University in Chicago for eighteen years, during which she served as chairperson of the Sociology Department, director of the Chicago Area Studies Center, and director of the Urban Studies program. She held the position of visiting scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University. Dr. Baker has been an advisory editor for Contemporary Sociology, The Sociological Quarterly, The American Sociologist, and Gender and Society.