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Teaching Sociology
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January 1993
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[This text tries] to achieve a balance between the "how to" and "wherefore" of research. This book discusses hundreds of actual studies drawn from sociology, social psychology, demography, history, education, and political science. This book presents the latest data processing methods and goes beyond the dated discussion of three-variable "elaboration" in order to introduce students to the terminology and journal presentation formats of contemporary statistical modeling. [The authors] focus on the four most basic approaches to social research: experimentation, survey research, field research, and the use of available data. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each, while treating the approaches as complementary rather than mutually exclusive, ultimately advocating a multiple methods strategy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
January 1993
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Designed for introductory courses, this book strikes a balance between specific techniques and the underlying logic of social inquiry--the how-to and wherefore of research. Opening chapters illustrate the practicality of the study of research methods and the vital relationship between theory and research. Ensuing chapters follow the follow the ideal-typical research project--beginning with research design, measurement, and sampling, proceeding to data collection, and then to data processing and analysis. The authors focus on four major approaches to research--experimentation, survey research, field research, and the use of available data--and bring the material to life with numerous examples drawn from classic and current research. Advocating a multiple-methods strategy, the authors provide a full account of the benefits and drawbacks of using each approach, and describe the actual processes involved in conducting each.
January 1989
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Teaching Sociology
January 1988
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... We used non-probability convenience sampling (Straits, 2005), with samples taken at two different times. At Time 1 (T1), the sample consisted of a total of 663 pupils who received primary education at ten state schools in southern Spain. ...
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January 1988
... They have also been used to study issues of representation with regards to women [Ferree andHall 1990, 1996;Hall 1988Hall , 2000, racialized groups [Marquez 1994;Najafizadeh and Mennerick 1992;Niemonen 1993;Shaw-Taylor and Benokraitis 1995;Stone 1996], and various disadvantaged groups [Stolley and Hill 1996;Taub and Fanflik 2000]. Yet others have studied their function and formation [Baker 1988;Eitzen 1988;Fullerton 1988;Keith and Ender 2004;Judkins and Hand 1994;Macionis 1988;Manza, Sauder, and Wright 2010;Platt 2008;Stray 1994]. Lastly, they have been analyzed as a means of examining tensions in disciplines that speak to methodological issues [Lynch and Bogen 1997;Schutt 1987;Schacht 1990]. ...
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January 1994
Teaching Sociology
... The sample consisted of a total of 3,183 schoolchildren (48.4% girls) from primary and secondary schools, aged between 10 and 17 years (M = 12.76; SD = 1.52), from 27 state (85.19%) and private (14.81%) schools and colleges from Córdoba (Spain). Non-probabilistic incidental sampling was carried out due to the accessibility of the schools invited to participate (Singleton & Straits, 2004). 22.2% of the participants were from areas with a low socioeconomic level, 51.9% from areas with a medium level and 25.9% from areas with a high level. ...
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January 1989
Teaching Sociology
... In self-report questionnaires respondents are asked to answer questions about themselves and as an instrument they are widely used to measure beliefs, attitudes, feelings and opinions in diverse fields of research (Singleton & Straits, 2009). This also holds for the domain of research on learning and instruction where self-report questionnaires are often used to map student learning. ...
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January 1993
... The sample size for quantitative research can be determined by the type of statistical analysis used for data analysis. According to previous studies, a sample size of 200 to 500 is typically used in SEM applications, with larger sample sizes yielding more reliable results [9]. Furthermore, according to international scale principles, the sample size should be at least five times the number of items on the scale [10]. ...
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January 1993