Chava Frankfort-Nachmias, Anna Leon-Guerrero, Georgiann Davis

Broschiertes Buch

Social Statistics for a Diverse Society

Beschreibung

"You may be reading this introduction on your first day of class. We know you have some questions and concerns about what your course will be like. Math, formulas, and calculations? Yes, those will be part of your learning experience. But there is more. Throughout our text, we highlight the relevance of statistics in our daily and professional lives. Data are used to predict public opinion, consumer spending, and even a presidential election. How Americans feel about a variety of political and social topics-race relations, gun control, immigration, the economy, health care reform, or terrorism-are measured by surveys and polls and reported daily by the news media. Your recent Amazon purchase didn't go unnoticed. The study of consumer trends, specifically focusing on young adults, helps determine commercial programming, product advertising and placement, and, ultimately, consumer spending. And as we prepare this text, the world struggles to comprehend political divides, climate change, migration patterns, and gender rights, among other things. Statistics are not just a part of our lives in the form of news bits or information. And it isn't just numbers either. As social scientists, we rely on statistics to help us understand our social world. We use statistical methods and techniques to track demographic trends, to assess social differences, and to better inform social policy. We encourage you to move beyond just being a consumer of statistics and determine how you can use statistics to gain insight into important social issues that affect you and others"-- Provided by publisher.

Autor

Chava Frankfort-Nachmias is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the coauthor of Research Methods in the Social Sciences (with David Nachmias), coeditor of Sappho in the Holy Land (with Erella Shadmi), and numerous publications on ethnicity and development, urban revitalization, science and gender, and women in Israel. She was the recipient of the University of Wisconsin System teaching improvement grant on integrating race, ethnicity, and gender into the social statistics and research methods curriculum. Anna Leon-Guerrero is Professor of Sociology at Pacific Lutheran University in Washington. She received her PhD in sociology from the University of California-Los Angeles. She was the recipient of the university's Faculty Excellence Award and the K. T. Tang Award for Excellence. She is the author of and Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action, 7th Edition, and co-author (with Chava Frankfort-Nachmias and Georgiann Davis) of Social Statistics for a Diverse Society, 10th Edition (both with Sage). Georgiann Davis is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. An award-winning instructor, researcher, and scholar-activist, she received her PhD in sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications
• 10th edition
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 202mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 914g
• ISBN-13: 9781071910474
• ISBN-10: 1071910477
• Artikelnr.: 72664281