Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Overview
  • 1. The world of social research
  • Part II. Five case histories of social research
  • 2. The dilemma in the classroom: a cross-sectional survey measures the effects of segregated schooling
  • 3. Sampling social reality: a complex new survey measures the impact of the government's social programs on the American family
  • 4. One thing at a time: a series of laboratory experiments explores the antisocial tendency of people working in groups to secretly do less than their best
  • 5. The slowest, costliest, but best (and worst) of methods: two long-term studies, tracking nearly 800 people over many years, find that many of our beliefs about human aging are incorrect
  • 6. Twenty thousand volunteers: a massive real-world experiment tests a bold proposal to combat poverty by means of a guaranteed annual income.