Understanding the Social World

2019-12-20
Understanding the Social World

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  • Author: Russell K. Schutt
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications
  • ISBN: 1544358490
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 449

The author is a proud sponsor of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. Understanding the Social World: Research Methods for the 21st Century is a concise and accessible introduction to the process and practice of social science research. Fast-paced and visually engaging, the text crosses disciplinary and national boundaries, pays special attention to concern for human subjects, and focuses on the application of results. As it rises to the requirements of a world shaped by big data and social media, Instagram and avatars, blogs and tweets, the text also confronts the research challenges posed by cell phones, privacy concerns, linguistic diversity, and multicultural populations. The Second Edition discusses newly-popular research methods, highlights the fascinating work being conducted by contemporary social researchers, and includes enhanced tools for learning in the text and online. Included with this title: The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides.

Sociology

Sociology

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  • Author: Steven E. Barkan
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781936126538
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

Understanding the Social World

2016-01-07
Understanding the Social World

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  • Author: Russell K. Schutt
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications
  • ISBN: 1506306039
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 692

Understanding the Social World: Research Methods for the 21st Century is a textbook for the fast-paced, globally interconnected social world of the new century. Author Russell K. Schutt rises to the research requirements of a social world shaped by big data and social media, Instagram and avatars, blogs, and tweets; and he confronts the research challenges created by cell phones, privacy concerns, linguistic diversity and multicultural neighborhoods. Understanding the Social World is fast-paced and visually sleek, taking students across disciplinary and national boundaries and transcending past research debates by emphasizing mixed methods, concern for human subjects, and application of results. Accessible, with timely examples and engaging exercises, this title brings a new and clear understanding to the practice and process of research.

Understanding the Social World of the New Testament

2009-10-29
Understanding the Social World of the New Testament

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  • Author: Dietmar Neufeld
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135263019
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 305

The New Testament is a book of great significance in Western culture yet is often inaccessible to students because the modern world differs so significantly from the ancient Mediterranean one in which it was written. Here, the authors develop interpretative models for understanding such values as collectivism and kinship.

Making Sense of the Social World

2018-12-01
Making Sense of the Social World

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  • Author: Daniel F. Chambliss
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications
  • ISBN: 1506364101
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 451

The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. Congratulations to Daniel F. Chambliss, winner of the ASA Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Prize for 2018. The new Sixth Edition of Making Sense of the Social World continues to be an unusually accessible and student-friendly introduction to the variety of social research methods, guiding undergraduate readers to understand research in their roles as consumers and novice producers of social science. Known for its concise, casual, and clear writing, its balanced treatment of quantitative and qualitative approaches, and its integrated approach to the fundamentals, the text has much to offer both novice researchers and more advanced students alike. The authors use a wide variety of examples from formal studies and everyday experiences to illustrate important principles and techniques. A Complete Teaching & Learning Package SAGE coursepacks FREE! Easily import our quality instructor and student resource content into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. SAGE edge FREE online resources for students that make learning easier.

Investigating the Social World

2018-01-30
Investigating the Social World

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  • Author: Russell K. Schutt
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications
  • ISBN: 1506361218
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 750

The author is a proud sponsor of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. In the Ninth Edition of his leading social research text, Russell K. Schutt, an award-winning researcher and teacher, continues to make the field come alive with current, compelling examples of high quality research and the latest innovations in research methodology, along with a clear and comprehensive introduction to the logic and techniques of social science research. Through numerous hands-on exercises that promote learning by doing, Investigating the Social World helps students to understand research methods as an integrated whole. Using examples from research on contemporary social issues, the text underscores the value of both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and the need to make ethical research decisions. Investigating the Social World develops the critical skills necessary to evaluate published research, and to carry out one’s own original research. A Complete Teaching & Learning Package SAGE Premium Video Included in the interactive eBook! SAGE Premium Video tools and resources boost comprehension and bolster analysis. Interactive eBook Includes access to multimedia tools and much more! Save when you bundle the interactive eBook with the new edition SAGE coursepacks FREE! Easily import our quality instructor and student resource content, including resources from ASA’s TRAILS, into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. SAGE edge FREE online resources for students that make learning easier. SPSS Student Software Package Investigating the Social World with SAGE IBM® SPSS® Statistics v24.0 Student Version and SAVE! – Bundle ISBN: 978-1-5443-3426-4

Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures

2006-01-26
Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures

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  • Author: Peter B Smith
  • Publisher: SAGE
  • ISBN: 9781412903660
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 342

This long-awaited new textbook will be of enormous value to students and teachers in cross-cultural and social psychology. The key strength of Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures: Living and Working in a Changing World is how it illustrates the ways in which culture shapes psychological process across a wide range of social contexts. It also effectively examines the strengths and limitations of the key theories, methods and instruments used in cross-cultural research.

Knowing the Social World

1998
Knowing the Social World

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  • Author: Tim May
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 216

This ground-breaking and multi-disciplinary volume brings together a distinguished team of leading thinkers, to discuss issues surrounding and informing social science.

Social Understanding and Social Lives

2011-03-24
Social Understanding and Social Lives

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  • Author: Claire Hughes
  • Publisher: Psychology Press
  • ISBN: 1136698477
  • Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 257

Using rich observational data gathered in her extended longitudinal study, as well as skills acquired during a six year collaboration with Professor Judy Dunn, the author successfully integrates both cognitive and social accounts of theory of mind.

Understanding Contemporary Society

2000-02-11
Understanding Contemporary Society

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  • Author: Gary Browning
  • Publisher: SAGE
  • ISBN: 9780761959267
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 520

Understanding Contemporary Society: Theories of the Present is a comprehensive textbook to guide students through the complexities of social theory today. Over 30 chapters, written by an international team of contributors, demonstrate clearly the practical applications of social theory in making sense of the modern world. Students are both introduced to the most significant theories and guided through the major social developments which shape our lives. Key features of the book are: clearly structured and readable prose; bullet pointed summaries and annotated further reading for each topic; makes complex issues accessible to undergraduates; focuses on relevance and practicality; chapter lay-out which is ideal for t