Featuring a unique pedagogical framework, Social Research Methods: Sociology in Action provides all the elements required to create an active learning experience for this course. Modeled after the other volumes in SAGE′s "Sociology in Action" series, this innovative new text combines hands-on work, application, and learning-by-example. It features a diverse group of expert contributing authors who also practice active learning in their own classrooms.
Each chapter discusses one aspect of conducting quantitative or qualitative research, and pairs that foundational coverage with carefully-developed learning activities and thought-provoking questions that prompt students to practice and apply their new research skills. The comprehensive Activity Guide that accompanies the text will help you carry out and assess the activities that best engage your students, fit the mode of instruction you choose, and meet your course goals.
In the spirit of the "Sociology in Action" theme, the text conclude with two unique chapters on how social researchers interact with their surrounding communities and help bring about social change and social justice
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ABOUT THE EDITORS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODS: SOCIOLOGY IN ACTION
Kristin Kenneavy is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Ramapo College of New Jersey, a public liberal arts college in Mahwah, NJ. Her research interests relate to gender and sexuality; in particular, bystander intervention as a tool to prevent sexual and interpersonal violence. Her work has been published in Violence Against Women, Social Forces, and Pediatrics. Kristin has taught social research classes for over 10 years, and has facilitated the presentation of numerous student research projects at regional and national academic conferences. She also teaches a Public Sociologies course, which asks students to work with community organizations and campus partners to address social problems through applied research projects. Past partners include Mahwah Environmental Volunteers Organization, healingSPACE at the Bergen County YWCA, the Ringwood Farmers Market, Meals on Wheels - Pascack Valley, and the Grassroots Arts Commission of Paterson, NJ. Recently, Public Sociologies students worked with the Ramapo College Student Government Association to field a survey that substantiated the need for an on- campus food pantry, which launched in 2018. Kristin has served as the Faculty Fellow for Civic Engagement in Ramapo College's Center for Student Involvement and has given many presentations on how to connect social research to community-based issues. She has received the Henry Bischoff Excellence in Teaching Award at Ramapo College.
Catherine E. Harnois is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and a core faculty member in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wake Forest University. As a quantitative sociologist, she is interested drawing attention to the analytic insights of intersectionality for social science research methods. A major theme of her research concerns how social science research practices, particularly those that are quantitative, often result in narratives that obscure diversity and reproduce social inequalities. Other work focuses on discrimination based on multiple social statuses, and the study of social identities and political consciousness. Catherine's research has appeared in the journals Gender & Society, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociological Forum, Sociological Perspectives, and the National Women's Studies Association Journal, in addition to other scholarly outlets. In 2012, she received the Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship Article Award from the American Sociological Association section on Race, Gender, and Class. Her other books with SAGE are, Feminist Measures in Survey Research and Analyzing Inequalities: An Introduction to Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Using the General Social Survey.
ABOUT SAGE′S SOCIOLOGY IN ACTION SERIES OF TEXTS:
Kathleen Odell Korgen and
Maxine P. Atkinson developed the "Sociology in Action" series of undergraduate texts with SAGE, and are co-editors of
Sociology in Action (for introductory sociology),
Sociology in Action: Race and Ethnicity, and
Sociology in Action: Social Problems (with Mary Nell Trautner). Kathleen
is Professor of Sociology at William Paterson University, a comprehensive university in Wayne, New Jersey. She has co-authored or co-edited numerous texts that teach students to use the sociological tools they gain in their classes and to find inspiration from public sociologists and fellow sociology students. These works include
Our Social World: Introduction to Sociology,
Sociology in Action, Sociology in Action: Social Problems,
The Engaged Sociologist: Connecting the Classroom to the Community,
Sociologists in Action: Sociology, Social Change, and Social Justice and
Sociologists in Action on Inequalities: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality. She has written or edited books on race relations and racial identity including
Race Policy and Multiracial Americans,
Multiracial Americans and Social Class,
Crossing the Racial Divide: Close Friendships Between Black and White Americans, and
From Black to Biracial: Transforming Racial Identity Among Americans. She is also the editor of
The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology (Forthcoming). Kathleen works as a consultant for other sociology departments as a member of the Departmental Resources Group of the American Sociological Association. She has received William Paterson University's Award for Excellence in Scholarship/Creative Expression and the university's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Maxine
is Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University, a research-intensive university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her specialty is the scholarship of teaching and learning and her published work has appeared in such journals as
Teaching Sociology,
The International Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, and TRAILS: TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. Maxine is a co-author of the American Sociological Association's study defining best practices in the undergraduate sociology major, "The Sociology Major in the Changing Landscape of Higher Education: Curriculum, Careers, and Online Learning", and co-author (with Kathleen Lowney) of
In the Trenches: Teaching and Learning Sociology.. She focuses on teaching introductory sociology courses and "Teaching Sociology," a PhD course required for graduate students in her department. Maxine has won an impressive array of teaching awards including the American Sociological Society's Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Award.
