Experiencing Social Research A Reader

Experiencing Social Research: A Readerintroduces students to the social research process by pairing16 published research articleswithcandid interviewswith the lead researcher on each study. These interviews bring the research process to life, showing it as a human activity involving choices and constraints, challenges and surprises, frustrations and satisfactions, and collaboration among colleagues.The articles include a wide range ofdifferent methodological approaches--qualitative as well as quantitative; applied and theory-driven; critical, interpretive, and positivistic, illustrating nearly every mode of data collection and analysis.Also, articles representmany different subfields of sociology and related disciplines, such as criminology, family studies, gender, disaster research, mass media, health care, religion, rural sociology, race and ethnicity, social movements, comparative studies, evaluation research, historical analysis, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.Strand, Kerry J. is the author of 'Experiencing Social Research A Reader', published 2004 under ISBN 9780205404483 and ISBN 0205404480.