Doing Social Research - Hardcover

Baker, Therese L.

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ISBN 10: 0070034923 ISBN 13: 9780070034921

Publisher: McGraw-Hill College, 1993

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Designed to teach students how to do research, this text begins by offering six studies using contrasting approaches. These are referred to throughout the text. This edition has been updated to reflect current technology, as well as methods. New topics include focus groups and data management programmes for data entry. Case studies are treated as a major form of social research, and lengthy discussions of case studies are also included. Finally, there is an expanded section on use of libraries.

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Therese L. Baker has taught social research methods since 1975. She is one of the twelve founding members of California State University, San Marcos, founded in 1989, where she is currently program director in sociology and in social science. She received her undergraduate education at Cornell University and her graduate education at University of Chicago. She was a member of the sociology department at De Paul University in Chicago for eighteen years, during which she served as chairperson of the Sociology Department, director of the Chicago Area Studies Center, and director of the Urban Studies program. She held the position of visiting scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University. Dr. Baker has been an advisory editor for Contemporary Sociology, The Sociological Quarterly, The American Sociologist, and Gender and Society.

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