Description
This workbook with easy-to-use statistical software gets students involved in the analysis of sociological data as early as their first-year courses.
The computer exercises in this workbook bring sociology alive by enabling students to explore sociological issues using real data. Ideal for classes with an empirical orientation, Doing Sociology With Student CHIP shows students the link between their course work and the work of research sociologists.
Table of Contents
About Student CHIP
A Primer on Critical Reading
A Primer on Elementary Data Analysis
Chapter 1. The Problem of Social Order
Chapter 3. Culture
Chapter 4. Society
Chapter 5. Socialization
Chapter 6. Groups
Chapter 7. Interaction
Chapter 8. Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
Chapter 9. Inequality
Chapter 10. Race and Ethnicity
Chapter 11. Gender
Chapter 12. Social Change and Social Conflict
COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS
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
Chapter 1. The Problem of Social Order
1. Social Order and Control via Close Social Ties: The Example of Suicide
2. Social Characteristics of Happy Individuals
3. Trust and the Social Order
Exploratory Exercises
Answers for Selected Chapter 1 Exercises
Chapter 2. Issues in Sociological Research
4. Attitudes vs. Actions: Do Religiosity and Church Attendance Go Hand-in-Hand
5. The Idea of Contextual Effects: The Social Context of Working Full-Time for Women
Exploratory Exercises
Chapter 3. Culture
6. The Problem of Ethnocentrism
Exploratory Exercises
Chapter 4. Society
7. The Occupational Structure of Post-Industrial Society
8. HIV/AIDS—A Crossnational Examination
Exploratory Exercises
Chapter 5. Socialization
9. Social Class and Parental Values
Exploratory Exercises
Chapter 6. Groups
10. Physical Health, the Quality of Primary-Group Ties, and Social Class
11. Psychological Health, the Quality of Primary-Group Ties, and Social Class
12. Family Life and Adolescent Academic Success
13. Who’s Most Likely To Be Divorced?
Exploratory Exercises
14. The Relationship of Internet Use to Social Background and Emotional Well-Being
Exploratory Exercises
Chapter 8. Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
15. Social Class and Deviance (A Test of Anomie Theory)
16. Social Integration and Deviance (A Test of Control Theory)
Exploratory Exercises
Chapter 9. Inequality
17. An Examination of the “Status Attainment” Model and the Predictors of
Individual Economic Success
18. Up and Down Opportunity’s Ladder—Generational Social Mobility
19. Social Class and Political Participation
20. The Wealth of Nations: Associations Among Economic Development, Political Structure,
Age Composition, and Life Expectancy
Exploratory Exercises
Chapter 10. Race and Ethnicity
21. Ethnic Tolerance: A Function of Social and Personal Control
22. Race, Ethnicity, and Poverty
23. Predicting Minority Success in School—Individual and Contextual Factors
24. Intergroup Contact and the Reduction of Prejudice
Exploratory Exercises
Chapter 11. Gender
25. The Malleability of Gender Roles (Are Men Better Suited for Politics?)
26. Sex Differences in Income
27. The Status of Women: Crossnational Comparisons
Exploratory Exercises
Chapter 12. Social Change and Social Conflict
28. The Strategy of Social Protest
29. The International Scene: Ethnic Diversity and Separatist Movements
Exploratory Exercises
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