Exploring Social Issues: Using SPSS for Windows 95 Versions 7.5, 8.0, Or Higher

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Pine Forge Press, 1999 - Social Science - 394 pages
This revised edition guides users of SPSS for Windows 95 and, like its predecessor, helps teach students how to `do' social science, by showing how compelling social issues can be explored by analyzing social data. The book is written specifically for beginning research students and is accompanied by a data disk. It stresses active learning, as students are guided step-by-step through the exercises. No previous experience with computers, Windows, SPSS, statistics, or social research is required. An Instructor's Manual is available to lecturers who adopt the book, and request it on their institution's letterhead.
 

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Contents

Social Research Data Sets
1
The Scientific Method
27
Describing the Sample
47
What Do Americans Value?
73
Research Report 4 3 Testing Deprivation Theory with POSTLIFE as
89
Comparative Analysis 4 1 Have the Sources of Religiosity Changed over
95
Attitudes about
99
What Kinds of Children
125
2 Testing the Inequalities of Gender for Statistical
215
Research Report 9 4 Multivariate Analysis of Sexism
229
Inequality and Race
243
Modern
259
5 A Multivariate Analysis of Prejudice and Social Class
265
Forms
283
Voter
319
Appendix A Variable Names Item Wordings and Codes
357

Fear Law Enforcement and Punishment
151
Inequality and Social Class in
181
Research Report 8 3 Is Happiness Affected by Social Class?
199
Comparative Analysis 8 1 Have the Causes of Inequality Changed over
205
Inequality and Gender
209
Appendix B SPSS Commands Used in This Book
371
Answers to Selected Exercises
379
Bibliography
387
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About the author (1999)

Joseph F. Healey is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Christopher Newport University in Virginia. He received his PhD in sociology and anthropology from the University of Virginia. An innovative and experienced teacher of numerous race and ethnicity courses, he has written articles on minority groups, the sociology of sport, social movements, and violence, and he is also the author of Statistics: A Tool for Social Research (10th ed., 2014).

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TitleExploring Social Issues: Using SPSS for Windows 95 Versions 7.5, 8.0, Or Higher
AuthorJoseph F. Healey
Editionillustrated, revised
PublisherPine Forge Press, 1999
ISBN0761986006, 9780761986003
Length394 pages
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