Social Statistics for a Diverse Society With SPSS Student Version
Language: English
Published by SAGE Publications Inc, 2005
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Written especially for undergraduate students taking their first course in social statistics, this highly accessible bestselling text has been thoroughly revised and updated with the latest General Social Survey data. The new Fourth Edition maintains the same informal, conversational writing style along with the many pedagogical features have led to the previous editions? widespread success. It also introduces new social issues, including more analysis of cultural diversity. The text includes resources designed to support effective teaching: illustrations showing how statistical concepts are used to interpret social issues, guides for reading and interpreting the research literature, SPSS demonstrations, and a rich variety of exercises. 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.
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- Title
- Social Statistics for a Diverse Society With SPSS Student Version
- Author
- Chava Frankfort-Nachmias
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 141291793X
- ISBN 13
- 9781412917933
- Edition
- 4th Edition
For installation instructions – now including a section on how the Student Version differs from the SPSS Base product, click here.
*This edition comes with the student version of SPSS software. To order the edition without SPSS software, please order ISBN: 978-1-4129-1517-5.*
Written especially for undergraduate students taking their first course in social statistics, this highly accessible bestselling text has been thoroughly revised and updated with the latest General Social Survey data. This new 4th Edition maintains the same informal, conversational writing style along with the many pedagogical features have led to the previous editions′ widespread success. It also introduces new social issues, including more analysis of cultural diversity. The text includes resources designed to support effective teaching: illustrations showing how statistical concepts are used to interpret social issues, guides for reading and interpreting the research literature, SPSS demonstrations, and a rich variety of exercises. In this 4th 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.
New to the 4th Edition:
- All new Student Study Site at http://www.pineforge.com/frankfort-nachmiasstudy4 with interactive quizzes and web exercises, e-flashcards, online research activities, links to SAGE journal articles and more!
- Moves the former Chapters 9 and 15 in the Third Edition to the CD, per reviewer suggestions Merges the former electronic chapters on ANOVA and extended treatments of regression and correlation into the textbook
- Includes expanded and updated datasets with new ISSP and GSS data
- Covers new social issues, including more on cultural diversity (e.g., same-sex marriages)
- Includes excerpts from journal articles on the website that explore various techniques and illustrate concepts presented in the text
"This book is the best I have seen on the market. It is the only book I have seen that manages to teach both statistics and a great deal of social science." -- Tom Linneman College of William and Mary
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About the Author
Chava Frankfort-Nachmias is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is the coauthor of Research Methods in the Social Sciences (with David Nachmias), coeditor of Sappho in the Holy Land (with Erella Shadmi), and numerous publications on ethnicity and development, urban revitalization, science and gender, and women in Israel. She was the recipient of the University of Wisconsin System teaching improvement grant on integrating race, ethnicity, and gender into the social statistics and research methods curriculum.
Anna Leon-Guerrero is Professor of Sociology at Pacific Lutheran University in Washington. She received her PhD in sociology from the University of California–Los Angeles. She was the recipient of the university’s Faculty Excellence Award and the K. T. Tang Award for Excellence. She is the author of and Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action, 7th Edition, and co-author (with Chava Frankfort-Nachmias and Georgiann Davis) of Social Statistics for a Diverse Society, 10th Edition (both with Sage).
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