ABSTRACT
This reader introduces students to the social research process by pairing 16 published research articles with candid interviews with the lead researcher on each study.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter chapter 1|11 pages
Experiencing Social Research
Choices, Challenges, Constraints, and Compromises
chapter |14 pages
Young Dads
The Effects of a Parenting Program on Urban African-American Adolescent Fathers
chapter |19 pages
Rebellion, Modernity, and Romance
Smoking as a Gendered Practice in Popular Young Women’s Magazines, Britain 1918–1939
chapter |16 pages
The Impact of Social Structure on Mate Selection
An Empirical Evaluation of an Active-Learning Exercise
chapter chapter 6|3 pages
Nonreactive Research
Content Analysis, Accretion Measures, and Using Existing Statistics
chapter |15 pages
Race, Gender, and Status
A Content Analysis of Print Advertisements in Four Popular Magazines
chapter |16 pages
Graffiti on the Great Plains
A Social Reaction to the Red River Valley Flood of 1997
chapter |16 pages
Capital Punishment and Deterrence
Examining the Effect of Executions on Murder in Texas
chapter |22 pages
Neither Real Americans nor Real Asians?
Multigeneration Asian Ethnics Navigating the Terrain of Authenticity
chapter |22 pages
Exceptions to the Rule
Upwardly Mobile White and Mexican American High School Girls
