Lance W. Roberts, Karen Kampen and Tracey Peter
'You Play the Way you Practice': A Preface for Students
Lab 1: The Building Blocks: Variables and Hypotheses
Lab 2: Errors in Reasoning
Lab 3: Conceptual and Operational Definitions
Lab 4: Levels of Measurement
Lab 5: Quantitative Sampling Considerations
Lab 6:
Survey Design Issues
Lab 7: Content Analysis-Instrument Pre-testing
Lab 8: Content Analysis-Collecting the Data
Lab 9: Content Analysis-Processing the Data
Lab 10: Qualitative Field Observation
Lab 11: Using Existing and Official Statistics
Lab 12: Causal
Thinking
Notes
About the Authors
Index
Instructor's Manual
Lab instructions and tips for students
Lance Roberts is a Professor in the Sociology Department and a Fellow of St John's College at the University of Manitoba. He recently completed a term as Director of the Winnipeg Area Study, a survey research unit. For over three decades he has taught undergraduate and graduate methods and
statistics courses and is the author of several books and dozens of articles on topics related to social trends, ethnic relations, education, and inequality.
Karen Kampen is a Doctoral Candidate in the Sociology Department's PhD program at the University of Manitoba, where she holds the
position of Lab Instructor. Her main areas of interest are environmental sociology and research methods. She has spent 15 years working in universities as a Research Associate, collecting and analyzing data for long-term projects such as a health-care program evaluation and books on social trends
and poverty. She also serves as an Instructor for introductory sociology and undergraduate methods courses.
Tracey Peter is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Manitoba. Her areas of specialization include data analysis and syntax programming, skills
she advanced during her tenure as a Research Associate and Programming Manager with a nationally based evaluation research company. She currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in research methods and statistics and is working on several projects in mental health and violence, suicide
prevention, education, and immigration research.
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