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Investigating the Social World

The Process and Practice of Research

Eighth Edition
by Russell K. Schutt

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  1. Science, Society, and Social Research
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  2. The Process and Problems of Social Research
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  3. Research Ethics and Research Proposals
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  4. Conceptualization and Measurement
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  6. Research Design and Causation
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  8. Survey Research
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  9. Quantitative Data Analysis
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  10. Qualitative Methods: Observing, Participating, Listening
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  11. Qualitative Data Analysis
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  12. Evaluation and Policy Research
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  13. Historical and Comparative Research and Content Analysis
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  14. Secondary Data Analysis and Big Data
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  15. Mixed Methods
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  16. Summarizing and Reporting Research
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Interactive Exercise

Chapter 7: Experiments

Sources of Internal Invalidity: Research that Matters

Sources of Internal Invalidity: Research about Social Problems

Bibliography:
Research that Matters:
  • Hoffman, Stephen. 2014. “Zero Benefit: Estimating the Effect of Zero Tolerance Discipline Policies on Racial Disparities in School Discipline.” Educational Policy 28(1): 69-95. 
Research about Social Problems:
  • Ling, Rich and Gitte Stald. 2010. “Mobile Communities: Are We Talking About a Village, a Clan, or a Small Group?” American Behavioral Scientist 53(8):113-1147.
  • Leakey, Tricia, Kevin B. Lunde, Karin Koga, and Karen Glanz. 2004. “Written Parental Consent and the Use of Incentives in a Youth Smoking Prevention Trial: A Case Study From Project SPLASH.” American Journal of Evaluation 25:509–523.
  • Cohen, Susan G. and Gerald E. Ledford. 1994. “The Effectiveness of Self-Managing Teams: A Quasi-Experiment.” Human Relations, 47(1):13-44.
  • Hampton, Keith N. and Barry Wellman. 2001. “Long Distance Community in the Network Society.” American Behavioral Scientist 45:476–495.
  • Budig, Michelle J. and Melissa J. Hodges. 2010. “Differences in Disadvantage: Variation in the Motherhood Penalty across White Women’s Earnings Distribution.”  American Sociological Review, 75(5):705-728.

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