Investigating the Social World

The Process and Practice of Research

Russell K. Schutt

• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Year: 2022
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781071817087
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Research & Methodology
• Index: Social Sciences

The Tenth Edition of the bestselling Investigating the Social World provides students with the critical skills necessary to evaluate research and to carry out their own research. Each chapter integrates instruction in the various core research methods with investigation of interesting aspects of the social world. The book has always sought to communicate the excitement of social research and the importance of carefully evaluating the methods we use in that research. This edition also includes updated coverage of each research method and features many new examples reflecting research on the key issues we have experienced since 2020: the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of social justice movements, and threats to democracy. It also includes exercises based on the 2020 General Social Survey dataset. This textbook is also available in SAGE?s Vantage platform for the first time. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package in SAGE Vantage, an intuitive learning platform that integrates quality SAGE textbook content with assignable multimedia activities and auto-graded assessments to drive student engagement and ensure accountability.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Acknowledgements
• Publisher Note
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Brief Contents
• Detailed Contents
• About the Author
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Section I Foundations for Social Research
• 1 Science, Society, and Social Research
• 2 The Process and Problems of Social Research
• 3 Research Ethics and Research Proposals
• Section II Fundamentals of Social Research
• 4 Conceptualization and Measurement
• 5 Sampling and Generalizability
• 6 Research Design and Causation
• Section III Basic Social Research Designs
• 7 Experiments
• 8 Survey Research
• 9 Quantitative Data Analysis
• 10 Qualitative Methods
• 11 Qualitative Data Analysis
• Section IV Complex Social Research Designs
• 12 Mixed Methods
• 13 Evaluation and Policy Research
• 14 Using Secondary Data and Big Data
• 15 Historical and Comparative Methods and Content Analysis
• 16 Summarizing and Reporting Research
• Appendix A: Questions to Ask About a Research Article*
• Appendix B: Table of Random Numbers
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index