General Introduction

PART Ⅰ AN INTRODUCTION TO INQUIRY

Chapter 1:Why Do You Need to Understand Research Methods？

1．From the Sociological Imagination&C.Wright Mills

2．The Reality of Everyday Life&Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann

Chapter 2:Combining Theory with Research Questions

3．Delinquency of Chinese-Canadian Youth:A Test of Opportunity,Control,and Intergeneration Conflict Theories&Siu Kwong Wong

4．School Tracking and Student Violence&Lissa J.Yogan

5．Murder Followed by Suicide in Australia,1973-1992:A Research Note&Jo Barnes

Chapter 3:Ethics

6．Nuremberg and the Issue of Wartime Experiments on U.S.Prisoners:The Green Committee&Jon M.Harkness

7．Problems of Ethics in Research&Stanley Milgram

8．The Ethics of Conducting Social-Science Research on the Internet&James C.Hamilton

PART Ⅱ THE STRUCTURING OF INQUIRY

Chapter 4:Research Design

9．Public Assistance Receipt Among Immigrants and Natives:How the Unit of Analysis Affects Research Findings&Jennifer Van Hook,Jennifer E.Glick,and Frank D.Bean

10．Consequences of Participating in a Longitudinal Study of Marriage&Joseph Veroff,Shirley Hatchett,and Elizabeth Douvan

Chapter 5:Conceptualization and Operationalization

11．Conceptualization of Terrorism&Jack P.Gibbs

12．A Systematic Qualitative Evaluation of Levels of Differentiation in Families with Children at Risk&Yeudit Avnir and Ron Shor

13．Scale for Assessing Emotional Disturbance:Long-Term Test-Retest Reliability and Convergent Validity with Kindergarten and First-Grade Students&Michael H.Epstein,Philip D.Nordness,Douglas Cullinan,and Melody Hertzog

Chapter 6:Indexes and Scales

14．Environmental Waste:Recycling Attitudes and Correlates&Knurd S.Larsen

15．The Reverse Social Distance Scale&Motoko Y.Lee,Stephen G.Sapp,and Melvin C.Ray

16．Bias Towards Gay Patients by Psychoanalytic Clinicians:An Empirical Investigation&Arthur H.Lilling and Richard C.Friedman

Chapter 7:Sampling

17．Sex in America&Robert T.Michael,John H.Gagnon,Edward O.Laumann,and Gina Kolata

18．Alcoholics Anonymous and the Use of Medications to Prevent Relapse:An Anonymous Survey of Member Attitudes&Robert G.Rychtarik,Gerard J.Connors,Kurt H.Dermen,and Paul R.Stasiewicz

PART Ⅲ MODES OF OBSERVATIONS

Chapter 8:Experimental and Survey Research

19．Intraoperative Progress Reports Decrease Family Members'Anxiety&Jane S.Leske

20．Sex in America—The Sex Survey&Robert T.Michael,John H.Gagnon,Edward O.Laumann,and Gina Kolata

21．The Internet and Opinion Measurement:Surveying Marginalized Populations&Nadine S.Koch and Jolly A.Emrey

Chapter 9:Field Research and Unobtrusive Measures

22．Amateur Stripping and Gaming Encounters:Fun in Games or Gaming as Fun？&Julie Ann Harms Cannon,Thomas C.Calhoun,and Rhonda Fisher

23．The Evolution of Al-Anon:A Content Analysis of Stories in Two Editions of Its“Big Book.”（Mutual Help for Alcohol-Related Problems:Studies of Al-Anon and of Alternatives to Alcoholics Anonymous）&Jane E.Martin

24．Thinking Through the Heart&Ann Goetting

Chapter 10:Existing Data and Evaluation Research

25．What Sociologists Do and Where They Do It—The NSF Survey on Sociologist's Work Activities and Workplaces&Robert J.Dotzler and Ross Koppel

26．Professors Who Make the Grade（Factors That Affect Students'Grades of Professors）&Vicky L.Seiler and Michael J.Seiler

PART Ⅳ ANALYZING DATA

Chapter 11:An Introduction to Statistics

27．Elementary Applied Statistics:For Students in Behavioral Science&Linton C.Freeman

28．Nothing New Under the Sun？A Comparison of Images of Women in Israeli Advertisements in 1979 and 1994&Anat First

Chapter 12:Writing and Reading a Research Paper

29．Aids and the Media:A Look at How Periodicals Influence Children and Teenagers in Their Knowledge of AID&Diane Kholos Wysocki and Rebecca Harrison

Glossary

Index