Perspectives in Social Research Methods and Analysis

SECTION I. WHERE TO BEGIN Comparative Perspectives and Competing Explanations: Taking on the Newly Configured Reductionist Challenge to Sociology (2006) - Troy Duster Great Divides: The Cultural, Cognitive, and Social Bases of the Global Subordination of Women (2007) - Cynthia Fuchs Epstein The Positive Functions of Poverty (1975) - Herbert J. Gans Theodicy and Life Satisfaction Among Black and White Americans (2000) - Marc A. Musick SECTION II. RESEARCH DESIGN Conceptualizing Urban Poverty (1995) - Ellen Wratten Conceptualizing Work-Family Balance: Implications for Practice and Research (2007) - Joseph G. Grzywacz and Dawn S. Carlson The Violence of Adolescent Life: Experiencing and Managing Everyday Threats (2004) - Katherine Irwin SECTION III. ETHICS IN SOCIAL RESEARCH Code of Ethics Policies and Procedures of the ASA Committee on Professional Ethics (1997) - American Sociological Association Policies and Procedures (1997) - Committee on Professional Ethics, American Sociological Association Project Camelot and the 1960s Epistemological Revolution: Rethinking the Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus (2001) - Mark Solovey SECTION IV. QUANTITATIVE DATA COLLECTION Mapping Global Values (2006) - Ronald Inglehart Measuring Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): You May Only Get What You Ask For (2005) - Eve Waltermaurer Ethnicity, Gender, and Perceptions of Task Competence (1990) - Martha Foschi and Shari Buchan SECTION V. QUALITATIVE DATA COLLECTION Religion and Immigration in Comparative Perspective: Catholic and Evangelical Salvadorans in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Phoenix (2004) - Cecilia Menjivar A Focus Group Study of the Motivation to Invest: "Ethical/Green" and "Ordinary" Investors Compared (2001) - Alan Lewis The Pub and the People [Excerpt] (1942) - Mass Observation "Afterword" From Sidewalk by Mitch Duneier (2000) - Hakim Hasan SECTION VI. QUANTITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS Gender Bias in the 1996 Olympic Games: A Comparative Analysis (2003) - Catriona T. Higgs, Karen H. Weiller, and Scott B. Martin Residential Segregation on the Island: The Role of Race and Class in Puerto Rican Neighborhoods (2007) - Nancy A. Denton and Jacqueline Villarrubia SECTION VII. QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS Weathering the Storm: Nonprofit Organization Survival Strategies in a Hostile Climate (2002) - Howard Lune Social Context and Musical Content of Rap Music, 1979-1995 (2006) - Jennifer C. Lena The Changing Culture of Fatherhood in Comic-Strip Families: A Six-Decade Analysis (2000) - Raph LaRossa, Charles Jaret, Malati Gadgil, and G. Robert Wynn SECTION VIII. MIXED METHODS Theorizing Disaster: Analogy, Historical Ethnography, and the Challenger Accident (2004) - Diane Vaughan Men and Women's Experiences with Hazing in a Male-Dominated Elite Military Institution (2006) - Jana L. Pershing The World-System After the Cold War (1993) - Immanuel Wallerstein SECTION IX. LAST WORD GLOSSARY