Social Data Analysis

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arthur, Mikaila Mariel Lemonik, author.

Clark, Roger, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Textbooks.

Social sciences.

Sociology--Textbooks.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Providence, Rhode Island Rhode Island College Digital Publishing 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Social data analysis enables you, as a researcher, to organize the facts you collect during your research. Your data may have come from a questionnaire survey, a set of interviews, or observations. They may be data that have been made available to you from some organization, national or international agency or other researchers. Whatever their source, social data can be daunting to put together in a way that makes sense to you and others. This book is meant to help you in your initial attempts to analyze data. In doing so it will introduce you to ways that others have found useful in their attempts to organize data. You might think of it as like a recipe book, a resource that you can refer to as you prepare data for your own consumption and that of others. And, like a recipe book that teaches you to prepare simple dishes, you may find this one pretty exciting. Analyzing data in a revealing way is at least as rewarding, we’ve found, as it is to cook up a yummy cashew carrot paté or a steaming corn chowder. We’d like to share our pleasure with you.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

How to Use This Book

Section I. Introducting Social Data Analysis

Section II. Quantitative Data Analysis

Section III. Qualitative Data Analysis

Section IV. Quantitative Data Analysis with SPSS

Section V. Qualitative and Mixed Methods Data Analysis with Dedoose

Glossary

Modified GSS Codebook for the Data Used in this Text

Works Citied

About the Authors

Notes:

Description based on print resource