Exploring Social Issues: Using SPSS for Windows

• Stresses active and collaborative learning as students engage in a series of investigative explorations of social issues
• Shows students how analyzing data from the General Social Survey, a major national research program, can help them better understand compelling social issues
• Teaches students how to use SPSS as they analyze GSS data on a random sample of the population
• Guides students step-by-step through exercises that have been designed for those with no background in SPSS
• Includes research reports that follow a standardized fill-in-the-blank format for analyzing and presenting results, but with space left for students to summarize their results in their own words

Exploring Social Issues: Using SPSS for Windows, Third Edition can be effectively used in Introductory Sociology or other undergraduate sociology courses and may be used in conjunction with most of the standard textbooks in the field. The text is ideal for courses where the professor also wants to introduce students to doing social research and using SPSS.