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| Preface | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Overview of Social Research | |
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| Experiencing Social Research: Choices, Challenges, Constraints, and Compromises | |
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| Getting Started: Choosing a Topic | |
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| Choosing a Research Design: Method, Measures, Samples | |
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| Ethical Issues and Considerations | |
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| Collecting, Organizing, and Analyzing the Data | |
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| The Rewards of Social Research | |
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| Why Do Social Research? | |
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| The Relative Influence of Youth and Adult Experiences on Personal Spirituality and Church Involvement | |
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| An interview with ... Thomas P. O'Connor | |
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| Young Dads: The Effects of a Parenting Program on Urban African-American Adolescent Fathers | |
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| An interview with ... Carl Mazza | |
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| Research Design, Sampling, and Measurement | |
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| Cigarette Smoking and the Disenfranchisement of Adolescent Girls: A Discourse of Resistance? | |
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| An interview with ... Marjorie MacDonald | |
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| Rebellion, Modernity, and Romance: Smoking as a Gendered Practice in Popular Young Women's Magazines, Britain 1918-1939 | |
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| An interview with ... Penny Tinkler | |
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| Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches | |
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| Experimental Research | |
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| The Impact of Social Structure on Mate Selection: An Empirical Evaluation of an Active-Learning Exercise | |
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| An interview with ... John F. Zipp | |
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| The Effect of Enforcement on Merchant Compliance with the Minimum Legal Drinking Age Law | |
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| An interview with ... Richard Scribner | |
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| Survey Research | |
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| Spankers and Nonspankers: Where They Get Information on Spanking | |
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| An interview with ... Wendy Walsh | |
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| Predictors of Fear of Criminal Victimization at School among Adolescents | |
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| An interview with ... David C. May | |
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| Nonreactive Research: Content Analysis, Accretion Measures, and Using Existing Statistics | |
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| Race, Gender, and Status: A Content Analysis of Print Advertisements in Four Popular Magazines | |
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| An interview with ... Linda A. Triber | |
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| Graffiti on the Great Plains: A Social Reaction to the Red River Valley Flood of 1997 | |
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| An interview with ... Carol A. Hagen | |
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| Capital Punishment and Deterrence: Examining the Effect of Executions on Murder in Texas | |
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| An interview with ... Jon Sorensen | |
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| Field Research | |
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| Neither Real Americans nor Real Asians? Multigeneration Asian Ethnics Navigating the Terrain of Authenticity | |
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| An interview with ... Mia Tuan | |
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| Exceptions to the Rule: Upwardly Mobile White and Mexican American High School Girls | |
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| An interview with ... Julie Bettie | |
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| The Glass Phallus: Pub(lic) Masculinity and Drinking in Rural New Zealand | |
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| An interview with ... Hugh Campbell | |
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| Historical and Comparative Research | |
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| "Button-Down Terror": The Metamorphosis of the Hate Movement | |
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| An interview with ... Barbara Perry | |
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| Ties That Bind: Correlates of Adolescents' Civic Commitments in Seven Countries | |
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| An interview with ... Constance A. Flanagan | |