A hands-on introduction to the craft of social research for Introductory Sociology courses, Exploring Social Issues: Using SPSS for Windows, Third Edition puts students in the role of active researchers as they test their own ideas about topics such as divorce, abortion, crime, inequality, prejudice, and television violence using SPSS, the pre-eminent software program in the social sciences. This Third Edition uses updated General Social Survey (GSS) data sets and offers a robust SPSS primer in an appendix. The book is available in two formats: as a stand-alone text, or bundled with SPSS (Student Version). Key Features

Stresses active and collaborative learning as students engage in a series of investigative explorations of social issues
Shows students how analyzing data from the General Social Survey, a major national research program, can help them better understand compelling social issues
Teaches students how to use SPSS as they analyze GSS data on a random sample of the population
Guides students step-by-step through exercises that have been designed for those with no background in SPSS
Includes research reports that follow a standardized fill-in-the-blank format for analyzing and presenting results, but with space left for students to summarize their results in their own words

Exploring Social Issues: Using SPSS for Windows, Third Edition can be effectively used in Introductory Sociology or other undergraduate sociology courses and may be used in conjunction with most of the standard textbooks in the field. The text is ideal for courses where the professor also wants to introduce students to doing social research and using SPSS.

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Information

Publisher

SAGE Publications, Inc

Year

2009

ISBN

9781483343501

Edition

Topic

Scienze sociali

Subtopic

Sociologia

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Detailed Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Getting Started: Social Research, Data Sets, and Frequency Distributions
Chapter 2. Theory and Research: The Scientific Method
Chapter 3. Describing the Sample, Types of Variables, and Data Sets
Chapter 4. Culture: What Do Americans Value?
Chapter 5. A Controversy in Values: Attitudes About Abortion
Chapter 6. Socialization: What Kinds of Children Do Americans Want?
Chapter 7. Crime: Fear, Law Enforcement, and Punishment
Chapter 8. Inequality and Social Class in the United States
Chapter 9. Inequality and Gender
Chapter 10. Inequality and Race
Chapter 11. The Family Institution: Forms and Functions
Chapter 12. The Political Institution in the United States: Support for Civil Liberties, Presidential Choice, and the Gender Gap
Appendix A. Variable Names, Item Wordings, and Codes for All Data Sets
Appendix B. SPSS Commands Used in This Book
Answers to Selected Exercises
Glossary of Key Concepts
Index