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ISBN 10: 1439082421

ISBN 13: 978-1439082423 

Author: Kenneth R. Hoover, Todd Donovan 

A concise introduction to the fundamental concepts of social scientific thinking and research, this classic text makes scientific thinking, research methods and statistics accessible to undergraduates at a common sense level. This text is intended for use in a broad array of the social sciences, including Political Science, Sociology and Psychology.

Table of contents:

1. Preface

2. About the Authors

3. Thinking Scientifically

4. Why Bother to Be Systematic?

5. The Role of Reasoned Judgment and Opinion

6. The Role of Imagination, Intuition, and Custom

7. The Elements of Science

8. The Origin and Utility of Concepts

9. What Is a Variable?

10. The Hypothesis

11. The Scientific Method

12. The Many Roles of Theory

13. Strategies

14. Thinking Over the Problem

15. Reality Testing

16. Understanding the Results

17. Refinements

18. Hypotheses

19. Variables

20. Measuring Variables and Relationships

21. Measuring Variables: Levels of Measurement

22. Measuring the Significance and Representativeness of Data: Probability, Sampling, and Problems in Polling

23. Measuring Relationships Between Variables: Association and Correlation

24. Computers and Statistics

25. Reflections: Back to the Roots

26. Factuality, Reality, and Actuality

27. Morality and the Limits of Science

28. Of Scientists, Science, and Paradigms

29. Making Social Science Serve Human Needs

30. The Radicalism of Science

31. Science and Politics

32. Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America

33. Trust in Government: The United States in Comparative Perspective

34. Index

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