author: roberta garner

The Joy of Stats: A Short Guide to Introductory Statistics in the Social Sciences, Second Edition

... Statistics Without Tears: An Introduction for Non- mathematicians. Boston: Pearson, 2004. This is a discursive guide to statistics with emphasis on statistical inference and statistical reasoning; lots of graphs. It does not go into a ...

The Joy of Stats: A Short Guide to Introductory Statistics in the Social Sciences, Third Edition

... fractions have an infinite repeating decimal expansion , such as 1/3 = .3333 ... on and on and 1/9 = .11111 ... on and on . These have to be rounded off , and this makes them a little less precise than the fraction in its original form ...

Social Theory: Continuity and Confrontation: A Reader, Third Edition

... Reflection Questions 1. Compare and contrast Adorno and Horkheimer's views ... observation of movie watching, carefully note what people say about the ... paper on your own educational experiences. Compare and contrast them to Anyon's ...

Social Theory, Volume I: From Classical to Modern Theory, Third Edition

... Reflection Questions 1. Compare and contrast Adorno and Horkheimer's views ... observation of movie watching, carefully note what people say about the ... paper on your own educational experiences. Compare and contrast them to Anyon's ...

Changing Theories: New Directions in Sociology

... the body idiom.' For Goffman, the body idiom is bodily behavior that conveys ... never stop communicating through the body idiom. Although people are not ... lies. Following Durkheim, Goffman sees role performance in everyday social life ...

Rethinking Contemporary Social Theory

... Goffman was especially interested in how gender is conveyed and reproduced by framing practices in advertisements. In Gender Advertisements, he collected and displayed hundreds of ads that define, frame, and constrain the meaning of gender.

Changing Theories: New Directions in Sociology

... Zone Books . Debray , Regis . 1979. " A Modest Contribution to the Rite and Ceremonies of the Tenth Anniversary . " New Left Review 115 : 45-65 . Delaney , Tim . 2005. Contemporary Social Theory ... Eric . 1999. The Story of American Freedom ...

The New Chicago: A Social and Cultural Analysis

... Gang, The Delin- quent Boy, The Jack Roller, The Professional Thief, The Hobo, The Unadjusted Girl, The Marginal Man, Black Metropolis, and the classic The Pol- ish Peasant in Europe and America— all prod- ucts of the University of Chicago ...

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