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Show your students how social research really unfolds.

Written by a team of renowned sociologists with experience in both the field and the classroom, The Art and Science of Social Research offers authoritative, accessible, and balanced coverage of the methods used to study the social world. The authors highlight the challenges of investigating the unpredictable topic of human lives while providing insights into what really happens in the field, the laboratory, and the survey call center. A streamlined Second Edition is now accompanied by three new InQuizitive activities and writing tutorials that help students master the building blocks of research and hone key writing skills.

Deborah Carr is a demographer and an active teacher at Boston University, where she regularly teaches the intro course. Her work focuses on sociology of the life course, aging, social psychology, and gender. Carr's latest book, Worried Sick: How Stress Hurts Us and How to Bounce Back, looks at how stress gets under our skin, makes us sick, and how and why people cope with stress differently.

Elizabeth Heger Boyle is associate professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota, where she teaches course on sociology of law, human rights, and women’s health. Her research and writing interests include cross-national analysis of legal activity, international law, immigration, and women's rights. Her current research project focuses on abortion politics in the global arena and looks at how transnational organizations like Planned Parenthood and the Catholic Church have gotten involved in shaping abortion policies around the world and the implications of their involvement on women.

Ben Cornwell is associate professor of sociology at Cornell University, where he teaches introduction to sociology, the sociology of disasters, and research methods. Professor Cornwell’s research interests include sociology of health and aging, social network analysis, organizational sociology, and social stratification. His current research focuses on the implications of socially networked and sequenced social processes for individuals and organizations―and, in particular, how such processes shape social stratification. His most recent work on social sequence analysis demonstrates how the ordering of social phenomena affects a variety of phenomena, including the stress process and the creation of social networks.

Shelley Correll is professor of sociology at Stanford University, where she teaches classes on the sociology of gender, sociology of work, and social psychology. Her research is in the areas of gender, workplace dynamics, and organizational culture, examining how cultural beliefs about gender and work influence the career paths of men and women. Professor Correll has received numerous national awards for her research on the “motherhood penalty,” research that demonstrates how motherhood influences the workplace evaluations, pay, and job opportunities of mothers. She is currently leading a nationwide, interdisciplinary project on “redesigning work” that evaluates how workplace structures and practices can be better aligned with today’s workforce.

Robert Crosnoe is associate dean of Liberal Arts and Rapoport Centennial Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. His main research area is the life course and human development, specifically the connections among children’s and adolescents’ health, psychosocial development, and educational trajectories and how these connections contribute to population-level inequalities. Professor Crosnoe teaches introduction to sociology, sociology of the family, and “Difficult Dialogues: Race and Social Policy in the U.S.” He has won the President’s Associates Award for Teaching Excellence and the Dad’s Association Centennial Teaching Award for Undergraduate Instruction.