Hands on Sociology

Résumé du livre

[This is a] microcomputer workbook designed for beginning sociology students ... The present book ... draws from the 1989 and 1990 General Social Surveys ... The present workbook is also based upon the ... data analysis software developed by MicroCase Corporation, known as the MicroCase Analysis System ... The accompanying text and exercises provide an overview for doing social science research: formulating hypotheses, using samples, employing significance texts, and applying statistical controls, among other topics ... [The book] begins by offering students a framework for interpreting sociological data. [It provides] a methodological overview ... [The book] guides students to operate a computer [and] present a preliminary data analysis exercise, focusing narrowly upon the social correlates of abortion attitudes. [The book] covers some the finer points of crosstabulation ... [It covers] univariate distributions and ... bivariate associations. Each data analysis exercise consists of a variety of multiple-choice and essay questions for students to answer, usually with their computers.-Introd.