Profiles of Social Research : The Scientific Study of Human Interaction /
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
[1985]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.