Essentials of Social Statistics for a Diverse Society is a briefer version of the successful Social Statistics for a Diverse Society, that helps students learn key statistical concepts through real research examples related to race, class, gender, and other sociological concepts.
This is intended to be an accessible, issues-oriented book that is more intuitive, as opposed to rigorously mathematical, than most books.
This Eighth Edition of Social Statistics for a Diverse Society continues to emphasize intuition and common sense, while demonstrating that social science is a constant interplay between methods of inquiry and important social issues.
Katz, Jonathan Ned. 2003. “The Invention of Heterosexuality.” Pp. 136–48 in The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality, edited by Tracy E. Ore. Boston: McGrawHill. Katz, Marsha and Helen ...
The Logic of Statistical Reasoning Thomas Dietz, Linda Kalof. The formula for calculating Pearson's correlation coefficient directly from the data is: SXY SSX SSY (13.37) XY XY ii N ii N N * (( )( )) ((()(())) == −− −− ...
William Robinson (2006) Many argue that the recent mass demonstrations by Latino immigrants and their supporters represent a "new civil rights movement." William Robinson, however, argues that these demonstrations move far beyond this ...
In this Fourth Edition, the authors have introduced a strong global perspective by using real-life examples from the International Social Survey Programme that help expand the students' analytical focus beyond the United States.
One of the fundamental issues to be addressed in this volume: Are there questions currently studied that are basically unanswerable even if the investigator had ideal nonexperimental data?
Throughout the text, people--especially those from marginalized groups--are shown not merely as "victims" of social problems, but also as individual actors with agency who resist discrimination and inequality and seek to bring about change ...
The Seventh Edition reflects SPSS® Version 25.0 and incorporates the latest results from the General Social Survey (GSS) as a secondary data set.
This text offers students an excellent balance between the technical and the practical." —Francis Neely, San Francisco State University Gain the skills you need to conduct political analysis and critically assess statistical research.