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Experiencing Social Research: A Reader
Kerry J. Strand, Hood College
Gregory L. Weiss, Roanoke College

ISBN-10: 0205404480
ISBN-13:  9780205404483

Publisher:  Prentice Hall
Copyright:  2005
Format:  Paper; 336 pp
Published:  11/09/2004
Status: Instock



This reader introduces students to the social research process by pairing 16 published research articles with candid interviews with the lead researcher on each study.

  • The authors have carefully selected complete research articles that are well-written, engaging, and accessible to undergraduate students.
  • Candid interviews with the lead researcher for each study about the their own work bring the research process to life, showing it as a human activity involving choices and constraints, challenges and surprises, frustrations and satisfactions, and collaboration among colleagues.
  • Includes a wide range of different methodological approaches—qualitative as well as quantitative, applied and theory-driven, critical, interpretive, and positivistic, illustrating nearly every mode of data collection and analysis.
  • Articles represent many different subfields of sociology and related disciplines, such as criminology, family studies, gender, disaster research, mass media, health care, religion, rural sociology, race and ethnicity, social movements, comparative studies, evaluation research, historical analysis, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.
  • Boxed inserts written by the text authors provide short explanations of statistical techniques used in some of quantitative research articles.
  • Questions at the end of each article help students focus on key elements of the research reported.
  • Each interview concludes with a question about important lessons about doing good research that can be shared with students.
  • The authors also provide brief overviews of the methods used in the research articles.



Preface.

I. OVERVIEW OF SOCIAL RESEARCH.

1. Experiencing Social Research: Choices, Challenges, Constraints, and Compromises.

2. Why Do Social Research?

Reading 1. Thomas P. O'Connor, Dean R. Hoge, and Estrelda Alexander, “The Relative Influence of Youth and Adult Experiences on Personal Spirituality and Church Involvement.”

Interview with Thomas O'Connor.

Reading 2. Carl Mazza, “Young Dads: The Effects of a Parenting Program on Urban African-American Adolescent Fathers.”

Interview with Carl Mazza.

3. Research Design, Sampling, and Measurement.

Reading 3. Marjorie MacDonald and Nancy E. Wright, “Cigarette Smoking and the Disenfranchisement of Adolescent Girls: A Discourse of Resistance?”

Interview with Marjorie MacDonald.

Reading 4. Penny Tinkler, “Rebellion, Modernity, and Romance: Smoking as a Gendered Practice in Popular Young Women's Magazines, Britain 1918-1939.”

Interview with Penny Tinkler.

II. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE APPROACHES.

4. Experimental Research.

Reading 5. John Zipp, “The Impact of Social Structure on Mate Selection: An Empirical Evaluation of an Active Learning Exercise.”

Interview with John Zipp.

Reading 6. Richard Scribner and Deborah Cohen, “The Effect of Enforcement on Merchant Compliance with the Minimum Legal Drinking Age Law.”

Interview with Richard Scribner.

5. Survey Research.

Reading 7. Wendy Walsh, “Spankers and Nonspankers: Where They Get Information on Spanking.”

Interview with Wendy Walsh.

Reading 8. David C. May and R. Gregory Dunaway, “Predictors of Fear of Criminal Victimization at School Among Adolescents.”

Interview with David May.

6. Nonreactive Research: Content Analysis and Using Existing Statistics.

Reading 9. Melvin E. Thomas and Linda A. Treiber, “Race, Gender, and Status: A Content Analysis of Print Advertisements in Four Popular Magazines.”

Interview with Linda Treiber.

Reading 10. Carol A. Hagen, Morten G. Ender, Kathleen A. Tiemann, and Clifford O. Hagen, Jr., “Graffiti on the Great Plains: A Social Reaction to the Red River Valley Flood of 1997.”

Interview with Carol Hagen.

Reading 11. Jon Sorensen, Robert Wrinkle, Victoria Brewer, and James Marquart, “Capital Punishment and Deterrence: Examining the Effect of Executions on Murder in Texas.”

Interview with Jon Sorensen.

7. Field Research.

Reading 12. Mia Tuan, “Neither Real Americans nor Real Asians? Multigeneration Asian Ethnics Navigating the Terrain of Authenticity.”

Interview with Mia Tuan.

Reading 13. Julie Bettie, “Exceptions to the Rule: Upwardly Mobile White and Mexican American High School Girls.”

Interview with Julie Bettie.

Reading 14. Hugh Campbell, “The Glass Phallus: Pub(lic) Masculinity and Drinking in Rural New Zealand.”

Interview with Hugh Campbell.

8. Historical-Comparative Research.

Reading 15. Barbara Perry, “Button-Down Terror: the Metamorphosis of the Hate Movement.”

Interview with Barbara Perry.

Reading 16. Constance A. Flanagan, Jennifer M. Bowes, Britta Jonsson, Beno Csapo, and Elena Sheblanova, “Ties That Bind: Correlates of Adolescents Civic Commitments in Seven Countries.”

Interview with Constance Flanagan.

Experiencing Social Research: A Reader introduces students to the social research process by pairing 16 published research articles with candid interviews with the lead researcher on each study. These interviews bring the research process to life, showing it as a human activity involving choices and constraints, challenges and surprises, frustrations and satisfactions, and collaboration among colleagues.

The articles include a wide range of different methodological approaches—qualitative as well as quantitative; applied and theory-driven; critical, interpretive, and positivistic, illustrating nearly every mode of data collection and analysis.

Also, articles represent many different subfields of sociology and related disciplines, such as criminology, family studies, gender, disaster research, mass media, health care, religion, rural sociology, race and ethnicity, social movements, comparative studies, evaluation research, historical analysis, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

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