Exploring Social Issues

Using SPSS for Windows

By: Joseph F. Healey (Editor), John E. Boli (Editor), Earl R. Babbie (Editor), Frederick S. Halley (Editor)

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Paperback | 10 February 2009 | Edition Number 3

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376 Pages

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A hands-on introduction to the craft of social research for Introductory Sociology courses, Exploring Social Issues: Using SPSS for Windows, Third Edition puts students in the role of active researchers as they test their own ideas about topics such as divorce, abortion, crime, inequality, prejudice, and television violence using SPSS, the pre-eminent software program in the social sciences.

This Third Edition uses updated General Social Survey (GSS) data sets and offers a robust SPSS primer in an appendix. The book is available in two formats: as a stand-alone text, or bundled with SPSS (Student Version).

Key Features

Stresses active and collaborative learning as students engage in a series of investigative explorations of social issues
Shows students how analyzing data from the General Social Survey, a major national research program, can help them better understand compelling social issues
Teaches students how to use SPSS as they analyze GSS data on a random sample of the population
Guides students step-by-step through exercises that have been designed for those with no background in SPSS
Includes research reports that follow a standardized fill-in-the-blank format for analyzing and presenting results, but with space left for students to summarize their results in their own words

Exploring Social Issues: Using SPSS for Windows, Third Edition can be effectively used inÿ Introductory Sociology or other undergraduate sociology courses and may be used in conjunction with most of the standard textbooks in the field. The text is ideal for courses where the professor also wants to introduce students to doing social research and using SPSS.

Order the SPSS Student Version of this book so your students can practice SPSS from the convenience of their laptops rather than in a computer lab.

Data sets available online! Click on 'Sample Materials and Chapters' on the left hand menu bar. These data setsÿprovide historical depth, and allow students to analyze trends over time by comparing 2006 results and patterns with data from the 1972 General Social Survey.

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