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Sociology

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"Cover" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Dedication" -- "Brief Contents" -- "Contents" -- "List of Figures" -- "List of Photographs" -- "List of Tables" -- "List of Boxes" -- "Preface" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "About the Authors" -- "Part I Introduction" -- "Chapter 1 Sociology: The Discipline" -- "What Is Sociology?" -- "Characteristics of Sociology" -- "Sociology and Common Sense" -- "Sociology as a Science" -- "Science as a Way of Thinking" -- "The Norms of Science" -- "Sociology as a Social Science" -- "Can Human Behavior Be Studied Scientifically?" -- "An Analogy: Meteorology" -- "Complications in the Study of Human Behavior" -- "The Sociological Imagination" -- "Sociology and the Other Social Sciences" -- "Sociology" -- "The Other Social Sciences" -- "The Emergence and Development of Sociology" -- "The Nineteenth Century" -- "Early Sociologists" -- "The Development of Sociology in the United States" -- "The Chicago School" -- "Symbolic-Interactionism" -- "1940–1960: A Turn from Activism" -- "The 1960s: Return to Activism" -- "The 1970s into the New Millennium: Diversity in Sociological Perspectives" -- "PUTTING SOCIOLOGY TO WORK" -- "How Sociology Can Be Used to Solve Real-Life Problems" -- "Summary" -- "Key Terms" -- "Exercises" -- "Chapter 2 How Sociology Is Done" -- "Social Theory and Research" -- "Cause and Effect" -- "Theory and Values" -- "Theories Versus Values: Why Does It Matter?" -- "The Relationship Between Theory and Research" -- "Using and Measuring Variables" -- "Independent Variables" -- "Dependent Variables" -- "Operational Definitions" -- "Validity and Reliability" -- "Correlation" -- "Control Variables" -- "Key Research Methods in Sociology" -- "Quantitative and Qualitative Methods" -- "Experiments" -- "Experimental and Control Groups" -- "Field Experiments" -- "Survey Research" -- "Questionnaires" -- "Telephone Interviews

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Taylor and Francis

ISBN

9781315527598

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