ISBN10: 0205308155
ISBN13: 9780205308156
Edition/Copyright: 3RD 01

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Inc.
Cover: Paperback
Year Published: 2001
Weight: 1.5lbs.
Used Condition: Good/Excellent

Doing Sociology with Student CHIP : Data Happy! / With CD

by Gregg Lee Carter


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Summary

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A workbook with student CHIP software that gets beginning users involved in the analysis of sociological data. The computer exercises in this workbook bring sociology alive by allowing readers to explore sociological issues using real data. Doing Sociology with Student CHIP shows users the link between course work and the work of research sociologists. For Mac and Indows users. For anyone interested in data analysis in sociology.

About Student CHIP.
A Primer on Critical Reading.
A Primer on Elementary Data Analysis.
Measures of Central Tendency.
Measures of Dispersion.
Scatterplots and the Correlation Coefficient.
Basic Tabular Analysis.
Criteria for Establishing Causality in Nonexperimental Situations.
The Art of Reading Partial Tables.

1. The Problem of Social Order.

Social Order and Control via Close Social Ties: The Example of Suicide.
Social Characteristics of Happy Individuals.
Selected Answers for Chapter 1 Exercises.

2. Issues in Sociological Research.

Attitudes vs. Actions: Do Religiosity and Church Attendance Go Hand-in-Hand?
The Idea of Contextual Effects: The Social Context of Happiness.

3. Culture.

The Problems of Ethnocentrism.

4. Society.

The Occupational Structure of Post-Industrial Society.

5. Socialization.

Social Class and Parental Values.

6. Groups.

Physical Health, the Quality of Primal-Group Ties, and Social Class.
Psychological Health, the Quality of Primal-Group Ties, and Social Class.

7. Interaction.

How Safe Do I Feel Walking about My Neighborhood?
Family Life and Adolescent Academic Success.

8. Crime, Deviance, and Social Control.

Anomie Theory, Control Theory, and Understanding Deviance.
Social Class and Deviance.

9. Inequality.

An Examination of the "Status Attainment" Model and the Predictors of Individual Economic Success.
Up and Down Opportunity's Ladder-Social Mobility between the Generations.
Social Class and Political Participation.

10. Race and Ethnicity.

Ethnic Tolerance: A Function of Social and Personal Control.
Race, Ethnicity, and Poverty-African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, and Whites.

11. Gender.

The Malleability of Gender Roles (Is a Woman's Place in the Home?).

12. Social Change and Social Conflict.

The Strategy of Social Protest.
Trust and the Social Order.

About the Author.