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Data Happy! Doing Sociology with Student Chip

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ISBN-10: 0205780016

ISBN-13: 9780205780013

Edition: 5th 2010

Authors: Gregg Lee Carter

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Description:

This workbook with easy-to-use statistical software gets students involved in the analysis of sociological data as early as their first-year courses. The computer exercises in this workbook bring sociology alive by enabling students to explore sociological issues using real data. Ideal for classes with an empirical orientation, Doing Sociology With Student CHIP shows students the link between their course work and the work of research sociologists.
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Book details

List price: $80.40
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/12/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 9.00" wide x 11.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Brief Table of Contents
About Student CHIP
A Primer on Critical Reading
A Primer on Elementary Data Analysis
The Problem of Social Order
Issues in Sociological Research
Culture
Society
Socialization
Groups
Interaction
Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
Inequality
Race and Ethnicity
Gender
Social Change and Social Conflict
Comprehensive Table of Contents
About Student CHIP
A Primer on Critical Reading
A Primer on Elementary Data Analysis
Measures of Central Tendency
Measures of Dispersion
Scatterplots and the Correlation Coefficient
Basic Tabular Analysis
Criteria for Establishing Causality in Nonexperimental Situations
The Art of Reading Partial Tables
The Problem of Social Order
Social Order and Control via Close Social Ties: the Example of Suicide
Social Characteristics of Happy Individuals
Trust and the Social Order
Exploratory Exercises
Answers for Selected Chapter 1 Exercises
Issues in Sociological Research
Attitudes vs. Actions: Do Religiosity and Church Attendance Go Hand-in-Hand
The Idea of Contextual Effects: the Social Context of Working Full-Time for Women
Exploratory Exercises
Culture
The Problem of Ethnocentrism
Exploratory Exercises
Society
The Occupational Structure of Post-Industrial Society
HIV/AIDS A Crossnational Examination
Exploratory Exercises
Socialization
Social Class and Parental Values
Exploratory Exercises
Groups
Physical Health, the Quality of Primary-Group Ties, and Social Class
Psychological Health, the Quality of Primary-Group Ties, and Social Class
Family Life and Adolescent Academic Success
Who's Most Likely to Be Divorced?
Exploratory Exercises
Interaction
The Relationship of Internet Use to Social Background and Emotional Well-Being
Exploratory Exercises
Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
Social Class and Deviance (A Test of Anomie Theory)
Social Integration and Deviance (A Test of Control Theory)
Exploratory Exercises
Inequality
An Examination of the "Status Attainment" Model and the Predictors of
Individual Economic Success
Up and Down Opportunity's Ladder Generational Social Mobility
Social Class and Political Participation
The Wealth of Nations: Associations Among Economic Development, Political Structure
Age Composition, and Life Expectancy
Exploratory Exercises
Race and Ethnicity
Ethnic Tolerance: A Function of Social and Personal Control
Race, Ethnicity, and Poverty
Predicting Minority Success in School Individual and Contextual Factors
Intergroup Contact and the Reduction of Prejudice
Exploratory Exercises
Gender
The Malleability of Gender Roles (Are Men Better Suited for Politics?)
Sex Differences in Income
The Status of Women: Crossnational Comparisons
Exploratory Exercises
Social Change and Social Conflict
The Strategy of Social Protest
The International Scene: Ethnic Diversity and Separatist Movements
Exploratory Exercises