This short, practical book prepares researchers to conduct their own survey research and write up the results, as well as read and interpret other people's research.  Doing Survey Research: A Guide to Quantitative Research Methods, takes a practical approach to research methods, it deals with topics such as writng questionnaires to analyzing data and reporting.  Sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists.

Doing Survey Research: A Guide to Quantitative Research Methods

Politics & Social Sciences

Nardi, Peter M.

Social Sciences

Allyn&Bacon

Written in a non-technical, everyday language, this supplementary bookhelps readers learn about and practice working with graphs and tables of numbers found in popular and scholarly publications, and understand the output from statistical software.

Interpreting Data (Book Alone)

Pearson

This short, practical book prepares people to conduct their own survey research, analyze data, and write up the results, while learning to read and interpret published research.

Doing Survey Research: A Guide to Quantitative Methods

Pearson College Div

Written in non-technical, everyday language, this supplementary text is a quick guide to understanding data. Readers will learn about and practice working with graphs and tables found in popular and scholarly publications, and understand the output from statistical software. Statistics, tables, graphs, and figures discussed are presented in four steps: *Defining it *Describing where it should or should not be used. *Showing how it is used in a popular magazine or newspaper, academic journal, or in output from SPSS software. *Discussing how to interpret its meaning.

Interpreting Data (with Research Navigator)

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Doing Survey Research

Paradigm Publishers

Gay Men's Friendships : Invincible Communities

Based on surveys and interviews of two hundred gay men, Peter Nardi's new study presents the first book-length examination of contemporary urban gay men's friendships. Expertly weaving historical and sociological research on friendship with firsthand information, Nardi argues that friendship is the central organizing element of gay men's lives. Through friendship, gay identities and communities are created, transformed, maintained, and reproduced. Nardi explores the meaning of friends to some gay men, how friends often become a surrogate family, how sexual behavior and attraction affects these friendships, and how, for many, friends mean more and last longer than romantic relationships. While looking at the psychological joys and sorrows of friendship, he also considers the cultural constraints limiting gay men in contemporary urban America—especially those that deal with dominant images of masculinity and heterosexuality—and how they relate to friendship. By listening to gay men talk about their interactions, Nardi offers a rare glimpse into the mechanisms of gay life. We learn how gay men meet their friends, what they typically do and talk about, and how these strong relationships contain the roots of larger cultural forces such as social movements and gay identities and neighborhoods. Nardi also points out the political and social consequences when friendships fail to provide support against oppression. An intimate and informative look at gay life in urban America, Gay Men's Friendships ultimately shows how these relationships challenge the gender order of our society by questioning how masculinity is constructed and by offering a model for a more creative blending of gay and heterosexual masculinity.

Parenting & Relationships

University of Chicago Press

Based on surveys and interviews of two hundred gay men, Peter Nardi's new study presents the first book-length examination of contemporary urban gay men's friendships. Expertly weaving historical and sociological research on friendship with firsthand information, Nardi argues that friendship is the central organizing element of gay men's lives. Through friendship, gay identities and communities are created, transformed, maintained, and reproduced. Nardi explores the meaning of friends to some gay men, how friends often become a surrogate family, how sexual behavior and attraction affects these friendships, and how, for many, friends mean more and last longer than romantic relationships. While looking at the psychological joys and sorrows of friendship, he also considers the cultural constraints limiting gay men in contemporary urban America—especially those that deal with dominant images of masculinity and heterosexuality—and how they relate to friendship. By listening to gay men talk about their interactions, Nardi offers a rare glimpse into the mechanisms of gay life. We learn how gay men meet their friends, what they typically do and talk about, and how these strong relationships contain the roots of larger cultural forces such as social movements and gay identities and neighborhoods. Nardi also points out the political and social consequences when friendships fail to provide support against oppression. An intimate and informative look at gay life in urban America, Gay Men's Friendships ultimately shows how these relationships challenge the gender order of our society by questioning how masculinity is constructed and by offering a model for a more creative blending of gay and heterosexual masculinity.

This comprehensive reader brings a social science perspective to an area hitherto dominated by the humanities. Through it, students will be able to follow the story of how sociology has come to engage with gay and lesbian issues from the 1950s to the present, from the earliest research on the underground worlds of gay men to the emergence of queer theory in the 1990s. Bringing together classic readings and the best work of younger scholars from all parts of the English-speaking world, this reader will be an invaluable resource for courses at undergraduate and graduate level in all areas of the sociology of sexuality and gender. Separate sections cover: * theoretical foundations * identity and community making * institutions and social change * challenges for the future. Each section begins with an introduction giving readers a brief guide to the readings in that section, contextualises them and relates them to one another and the book ends with an afterword by Ken Plummer summing up the present state of play and looking forward to the future.

Social Perspectives in Lesbian and Gay Studies: A Reader

Schneider, Beth E.

Routledge

Critical Thinking prepares students to thoughtfully interpret information and develop a sophisticated understanding of our increasingly complex and multi-mediated world. Peter M. Nardi’s approach helps students sharpen their critical thinking skills and improve their analytical reasoning, enabling them to ward off gullibility, develop insightful skepticism, and ask the right questions about material online, in the mass media, or in scholarly publications. Students will learn to understand common errors in thinking; create reliable and valid research methodologies; understand social science concepts needed to make sense of popular and academic claims; and communicate, apply, and integrate the methods learned in both research and daily life. A companion website includes links to articles and books mentioned in the chapters, illustrative items, videos, and current news and research that elaborate on each chapter’s key concepts.

Critical Thinking: Tools for Evaluating Research

Philosophy

University of California Press

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Doing Survey Research: A Guide to Quantitative Research Methods

Interpreting Data (Book Alone)

Doing Survey Research: A Guide to Quantitative Methods

Interpreting Data (with Research Navigator)

INTERPRTG DATA&RES NAV GD&SPSS16.0CD SBS PK

Doing Survey Research

Gay Men's Friendships : Invincible Communities

Gay Men's Friendships : Invincible Communities

Social Perspectives in Lesbian and Gay Studies: A Reader

Critical Thinking: Tools for Evaluating Research