Evaluating Social Science Research

Name: Evaluating Social Science Research
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ISBN: 9780195079708

ISBN-10: 0195079701

ISBN-13: 9780195079708

Edition: 2nd 1996 (Revised)

Authors: Paul C. Stern, Linda Kalof

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New for the Second Edition: LThe second edition includes a thorough updating of the text, the addition of new sample articles to replace the six original ones, and discussions of new quasi-experimantal research methods, mutivariate analysis, and meta-analysis.Evaluating Social Science Research addresses the perennial need of students and all citizens to develop critical thinking skills, training them to be intelligent consumers of social science research. The authors show how knowing how to make critical, independent judgements of scientific claims is an important skill of living in a world where scientific claims are used increasingly to influence personal and political behaviour. The…

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List price: $139.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/4/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.14" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Linda Kalof is Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University and author of Looking at Animals in Human History and editor of The Animals Reader: The Essential Classic and Contemporary Writings.



Introduction



Scientific and Nonscientific Statements of Fact



Methods of Gathering Scientific Evidence



Evaluating Scientific Evidence: What Conclusions Follow from the Evidence



Evaluating Scientific Evidence: in the Published Literature



Reviewing a Body of Literature: The Problem of Generalization


Appendix: Asking Answerable Questions and Finding Scientific Evidence


References


Index