The Practice of Social ResearchBy Earl Babbie

The Practice of Social ResearchEarl Babbie

A straightforward, comprehensive, and approachable guide to research as practiced by social scientists, the Thirteenth Edition of Babbie's "gold-standard" text gives you the tools you need to apply research concepts practically, as both a researcher and a consumer. Babbie emphasizes the process by showing you how to design and construct projects, introducing the various observation modes in use today, and answering critical questions about research methods--such as how to conduct online surveys and analyze both qualitative and quantitative data.

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POPULATION: An Introduction to Concepts and Issues BY John R. Weeks

POPULATION

An Introduction to Concepts and Issues 

By

John R. Weeks

John R. Weeks’s POPULATION introduces students to population issues, concepts, and theories by encompassing the entire field of demography, including both principle and practice. From fertility and mortality rates to agricultural production and urbanization, Weeks consistently engages students through compelling writing and comprehensive explication. And with intriguing essays and online resources, Weeks’s text gives students their best opportunity to truly master core demographic concepts.

Demographics class just got a lot more interesting. POPULATION doesn't just give you the information; it shows you how to use it. From the debate over how to rebuild the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina to what should be done about Social Security and Medicare, POPULATION lets you apply the research yourself. Plus, POPULATION makes studying for the test easier than ever with its built-in study aides.

CONTENTSPART ONE A DEMOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVECHAPTER 1 Introduction to Demography 1
CHAPTER 2 Global Population Trends 30
CHAPTER 3 Demographic Perspectives 66
CHAPTER 4 Demographic Data 108

PART TWO: POPULATION PROCESSESCHAPTER 5 The Health and Mortality Transition 146
CHAPTER 6 The Fertility Transition 198
CHAPTER 7 The Migration Transition 262

PART THREE: POPULATION STRUCTURE AND CHARACTERISTICSCHAPTER 8 The Age Transition 306
CHAPTER 9 The Urban Transition 352

CHAPTER 10 The Family and Household Transition 391
PART FOUR: USING THE DEMOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVECHAPTER 11 Population and the Environment 439
CHAPTER 12 Coping with Demographic Change 487

APPENDIX Population Data for the World, Keyed to Figure 2.1 539
GLOSSARY 545
BIBLIOGRAPHY 559
INDEXES 595

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About the author

John R. Weeks is Professor of Geography in the Geography Department at San Diego State University. His current research includes applications of remote sensing and GIS to analyze fertility in Arab nations, demography of the U.S.-Mexico border region, and geodemography of crime.

Bibliographic information

Title	Population: An Introduction to Concepts and Issues
Author	John R. Weeks
Edition	11, illustrated
Publisher	Cengage Learning, 2011
ISBN	1111185972, 9781111185978
Length	640 pages
Subjects	Family & Relationships  › Family Relationships Family & Relationships / Family Relationships

THE NEW URBAN SOCIOLOGY Mark Gottdiener & Ray Hutchison

THE NEW URBAN SOCIOLOGY

(Fourth Edition)

By

Mark Gottdiener

University at Buffalo

Ray Hutchison

University of Wisconsin–Green Bay

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About the author (2010)

Mark Gottdiener is professor of sociology at SUNY-Buffalo and the recipient of the 2011 Robert and Helen Lynd Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the author of numerous books, including The Theming of America; Las Vegas: The Social Production of an All-American City; New Forms of Consumption: Consumer, Culture, and Commodification; Postmodern Semiotics; and The Social Production of Urban Space.

Ray Hutchison is professor of sociology and chair of urban and regional studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He is series editor of Research in Urban Sociology and senior editor of the forthcoming three-volume Encyclopedia of Urban Studies.

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Title	The New Urban Sociology
Authors	Mark Gottdiener, Ray Hutchison
Publisher	Westview Press, 2010
ISBN	0813391873, 9780813391878
Length	457 pages
Subjects	Political Science  › Public Policy  › City Planning & Urban Development Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development Social Science / General Social Science / Social Classes Social Science / Sociology / General Social Science / Sociology / Urban

Urban Sociology: Images and Structure by William G. Flanagan

Urban Sociology

Images and Structure 

The fifth edition of this text presents a balanced review of the ecological arguments that the urban arena produces unique experiential and urban-based cultural effects while exploring the broader political and economic contexts that produce and modify the urban environment. In addition to examining the urban dimensions of such topics as community formation and continuity, minority and majority dynamics, ethnic experience, poverty, power, and crime, it provides an analysis of the spatial distribution of population and resources with regard to the metropolitanization of the urban form, and the interaction between urban concentration and development and underdevelopment. From a first chapter that begins with a discussion of some of the more micrological features of the urban experience, the text focuses on the significance of the more macrological cultural, social organizational, and political dimensions of urban change, in an historical span that includes the first cities and concludes with an exploration of the implications of cyberspace, transnationalism, and global terrorism for the future of urban sociology. While the work focuses primarily on the North American case, its analytical and integrated discussion makes it applicable to urban societies in general.

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About the author (2010)

William G. Flanagan is professor of sociology at Coe College.

Bibliographic information

Title	Urban Sociology: Images and Structure
Author	William George Flanagan
Edition	revised
Publisher	Rowman & Littlefield, 2010
ISBN	0742561755, 9780742561755
Length	445 pages
Subjects	Social Science  › Sociology  › Urban Social Science / Sociology / Urban