1. Getting Started: Social Research, Data Sets, and Frequency
Distributions
2. Theory and Research: The Scientific Method
3. Describing the Sample, Types of Variables, and Data Sets
4. Culture: What Do Americans Value?
5. A Controversy in Values: Attitudes About Abortion
6. Socialization: What Kinds of Children Do Americans Want?
7. Crime: Fear, Law Enforcement, and Punishment
8. Inequality and Social Class in the United States
9. Inequality and Gender
10. Inequality and Race
11. The Family Institution: Forms and Functions
12. The Political Institution in the United States: Support for
Civil Liberties, Presidential Choice, and the Gender Gap
Appendix A: Variable Names, Item Wordings, and Codes for All Data
Sets
Appendix B: SPSS Commands Used in This Book
Answers to Selected Exercises
Glossary of Key Concepts
Joseph F. Healey is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Christopher
Newport University in Virginia. He received his PhD in sociology
and anthropology from the University of Virginia. An innovative and
experienced teacher of numerous race and ethnicity courses, he has
written articles on minority groups, the sociology of sport, social
movements, and violence, and he is also the author of Statistics: A
Tool for Social Research (10th ed., 2014). John Boli, Emory
University, is the author or co-author of six books and many
articles and chapters on education, globalization, and political
sociology, including The Globalization Reader (Blackwell,1999),
Constructing World Culture (Stanford University Press,1999), Cream
of the Crop (Basic Books, 1994) and Institutional Structure:
Constituting State, Society, and the Individual (Sage, 1987). Earl
Babbie was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1938, but his family chose
to return to Vermont 3 months later, and he grew up there and
in New Hampshire. In 1956, he set off for Harvard Yard, where
he spent the next 4 years learning more than he initially planned.
After 3 years with the US Marine Corps, mostly in Asia, he
began graduate studies at the University
of California—Berkeley. He received his PhD from Berkeley in
1969. He taught sociology at the University of Hawaii from
1968 through 1979, took time off from teaching and research
to write full-time for 8 years, and then joined the faculty at
Chapman University in Southern California in 1987. Although he
is the author of several research articles and monographs,
he is best known for the many textbooks he has written, which
have been widely adopted in colleges throughout the United
States and the world. He also has been active in the
American Sociological Association for 25 years and currently
serves on the ASA’s executive committee. He is also past
president of the Pacific Sociological Association and California
Sociological Association.
Fred Halley, Associate Professor Emeritus, SUNY-Brockport, received
his bachelor’s degree in sociology and philosophy from Ashland
College and his master’s and doctorate degrees from Case Western
Reserve University and the University of Missouri, respectively.
Since 1970, he has worked to bring both instructional and research
computer applications into the undergraduate sociology curriculum.
Halley has been recognized for his leadership in the instructional
computing sections of the Eastern and Midwest Sociological
Societies and the American Sociological Association. At Brockport,
he served as a collegewide social science computing consultant and
directed Brockport’s Institute for Social Science Research and the
College’s Data Analysis Laboratory. Off campus, Halley directed and
consulted on diverse community research projects that were used to
establish urban magnet schools, evaluate a Head Start family
service center, locate an expressway, and design a public
transportation system for a rural county. Now residing in
Rochester, New York, he plays an active role in a faith-based
mentoring program for ex-offenders, and he volunteers for
Micrecycle, an organization that refurbishes computers used by
those on the other side of the computer divide in schools,
daycares, youth centers, and other community organizations.
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