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Informationen zum Autor Catherine E. Harnois is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Wake Forest University, where she teaches courses on social inequality and research methods. She is the author of two books: Feminist Measures in Survey Research (SAGE 2013) and Analyzing Inequalities: An Introduction to Race, Class, Gender & Sexuality Using the US General Social Survey (SAGE, 2018). Her current research uses an intersectional framework to investigate issues of political consciousness, identity, and discrimination. Her methodological work on the intersection of gender and racial discrimination received the 2012 Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship Article Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Race, Gender, and Class. Her research has appeared in the journals Gender & Society, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Social Psychology Quarterly, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Science & Medicine, and other scholarly outlets. Klappentext Analyzing Inequalities: An Introduction to Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Using the General Social Survey by Catherine E. Harnois is a practical resource for helping students connect sociological issues with real-world data in the context of their first undergraduate sociology courses. This worktext introduces readers to the GSS, one of the most widely analyzed surveys in the U.S.; examines a range of GSS questions related to social inequalities; and demonstrates basic techniques for analyzing this data online. No special software is required-the exercises can be completed using the Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA) website at the University of California-Berkeley which is easy to navigate and master. Students will come away with a better understanding of social science research, and will be better positioned to ask and answer the sociological questions that most interest them. Zusammenfassung Analyzing Inequalities: An Introduction to Race! Class! Gender! and Sexuality Using the General Social Survey by Catherine E. Harnois is a practical resource for helping students connect sociological issues with real-world data in the context of their first undergraduate sociology courses. This worktext introduces readers to the GSS! one of the most widely analyzed surveys in the U.S.; examines a range of GSS questions related to social inequalities; and demonstrates basic techniques for analyzing this data online. No special software is required-the exercises can be completed using the Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA) website at the University of California-Berkeley which is easy to navigate and master. Students will come away with a better understanding of social science research! and will be better positioned to ask and answer the sociological questions that most interest them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: An Introduction to Analyzing Inequalities Introduction: An Introduction to Analyzing inequalities Social Justice Statistics Social Justice Statistics: Critiques and Limitations Chapter 2: Understanding Data - Critical Concepts Overview of the GSS Finding data in the GSS Producing and Interpreting a Frequency Table Describing Variables: levels of measurement Describing Variables: Measures of Central Tendency Producing the Mean, Median and Mode in SDA Chapter 3: Analyzing Gender with the GSS Introduction: Key concepts in gender Identifying variables related to gender Produce and Interpret a Bivariate Table or "Crosstab" Chapter 4: Analyzing Race and Ethnicity with the GSS Introduction: Key Concepts in Race and Ethnicity Identifying variables related to race and ethnicity Produce and Interpret a Bivariate Table or "Crosstab" Applying a Filter Applying Control variables Chapter 5: Analyzing Class with the GSS...
