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Index 113 Study population, 190 Tate, Marsha Ann, 511 IuckeL Peter, 270, 272 Subgroup comparisons, 416-419 Tax maps, 201 Turk, Theresa GuminskL 117 Subjective knowledge, 38 Taylor. Humphrey, 273 Turner. Jonathan H, 43, 59 Substantive significance, 462, 469 Taylor, Todd, 511 Turner, Stephen Park, 59 Sudman, Seymour, 217, 282 TDE,272 Tuskegee research deception, 365 Sufficient cause, 93-94 Teacher-student negotiations, 298- TV violence and sponsors, 322-324 Suicide (Durkheim), 130, 330-332 Twende na Wakari, 349 Sumner, William Graham, 75 299 Two-way ANOVA, 478 Suppressor variable, 442, 443 Tearoom Trade (Humphreys), 71 Typology, 175-176 Survey Documentation and Analysis, Telephone directories, 200-201 Telephone survey, 269-271 UL So, 298 429 Terhanian, George, 273 Unexplained variation, 457 Survey research, 243-284 Term papers, 504 United States, 341 Test-retest method, 145 U.s birthrate, 13, 14 bias, 250-251 Test variable, 435 US\" decennial census, 77-78 CAPI. 272 Testing, 230 Units of analysis, 94-101 CAS!, 272 Tests of statistical significance, 462, CAn 270-271 analyzing existing statistics, 333 comparing the methods, 275-276 469 content analysis, 321-324 (SAQ,272 Thematizing, 308 defined, 94 fax surveys, 272-273 Theologides, Athanasios, 184 ecological fallacy, 100 general population survey, 273 Theoretical gaps and silences, 298 groups, 96-97, 98 interview survey, 264-269\" See Theoretical notes, 389 individuals, 96, 98 Theoretical sampling, 297 nonhuman entities, 98 also Interview survey Theory, 10-11,43,44 organizations, 97 online surveys, 273-275 Thomas, Edmund, 363 reductionism, 100-101 questionnaireo See Questionnaire Thomas, W L, 341 social artifact, 97, 99 respondents, 248-249 Three Mile Island, 238 social interactions, 97, 99 secondary analysis, 277-280 Three strikes law, 366 Univariate analysis, 409-416 self-administered question- Through the Looking Glass (Carroll), central tendency, 411-414 continuous/discrete variable, 415 naire, 257-264\"\" See also Self- 45 defined,409 administered questionnaire Thurstone, Louis, 170 detail vSo manageability, 415-416 strengths/weaknesses, 276-277 Thurstone scale, 169-170 dispersion, 414-415 TDE,272 Tibil, Gheorghe, 297 distributions, 410-411 technological advances, 270-275 Time-lagged regression analysis, 473 Univariate inferences, 460-461 telephone survey, 269-271 Time order, 91 University research centers, 502 uses, 244-245 Time-series analysis, 471-473 Unobtrusive research, 318-347 VR, 272 Time-series design, 357-359 analyzing existing, 330-338 web sites, 278, 284 Tocqueville, Alexis de, 341 comparative and historical re- Survey Sampling (Kish), 190 Tokugmva Religion (Bellah), 339 Swafford, Michael. 283 Total design method, 263 search, 338-345 Swalehe, Ramadhan Mo A, 349, Total variation, 455 content analysis, 320-330 353, 362 Touchtone data entry (TDE), 272 defined,319 Swanson, David A, 373 Tourangeau, Roger, 283 reference book, 319 Sweet, Stephen, 82 hading Places, 235 Unscientific surveys, A24 Symbolic interactionism, 35-36 Tradition, 5 URL, 502 Symbolic realism, 291 Traditional model of science, 44-46 Uwe, Flick, 316 Systematic sampling, 202-205, 207- Traffic laws, 11 208 Trail of Tears, 126 Validation, 165-167 Trance channeling, 292 Validity, 146-149 t-tests, 469 Transcribing, 308 Table of random numbers, 202-204, Traugott, Michael W, 282 analyzing existing statistics, 333- Trend study, 103 334 A18-A19 Triangulation, 113 Tacq, Jacques, 447 Truman, Harry, 182-183 construct, 146-147, 147 Takeuchi, David, 54 Truman-Dewey presidential election, content, 147 Tan, Alexis So, 199 criterion-related, 146-147 Tandon, Rajesh, 360, 361 182-183, 185 defined,146 Tanzanian soap opera, 349, 353, 362 Trust problem, 56 experimental research, 230-234 Tarule, Jill Mattuck, 38, 39

114 Index Validity (continued) Web sites, 496 . See also Internet Wharton, Amy, 163 external, 233-234 book, 29 Wheel of science, 23 face, 146 CASt. 187 Wizen Prophecy Fails (Festinger et all, field research, 313-314 census, 151 index construction, 156 CPt 178 103 internal, 230-233 elaboration model, 448 Whitcomb, Michael, 274 reliability, and, 148-149 evaluation research, 373 White, E B., 503 web site, 178 experiments, 237, 242 Whyte, William Foote, 293, 301, 302 field research, 317 Wieder, D\" L, 295, 296 Value-free sociology, 75 Government Printing Office, 336 Wife battering, 368-369 Vanderbei. Robert, 483, 484 government research sites, 502 Wikipedia, 498 Variable, 14-19,43, 136 grounded theory, 380 William D. Hacker Social Science GSS, 19,278 continuous, 415 GSS codebook, 151,278 Experimental Laboratory, 242 control, 435 indexes, 178 Williams, Robin M\", lL, 283 defined,14 Library of Congress, 449 Wilson, Camilo, 273 dependent. 18,222 memoing, 389 Wilson, Edward 0\", 101 discrete, 415 on-line surveys, 274 Witt, G\" Evans, A24 distorter, 443, 444 overview, 29 Womens Ways of Knowing (Belenky independent, 18,222 qualitative analysis, computer pro- interval, 455 grams, 390-391. 403 et all, 38 names, 133 quantitative analysis, 429 Wooffitt, Robin, 402 nominal, 452-453 reading and writing social re- Working papers, 504 ordinal, 453-455 search, 511 World development indicators, 332 ratio, 455 reliability, 178 World Population Data Sheet, 337 suppressor, 442, 443 research proposal. 118-119 World War II. 238 test. 435 sampling, 217 World Wide Web\" See Internet; Web Variable names, 133 scales, 178 Variable-oriented analysis, 379 secondary analysis, 278 sites Variations between extremes, 135 social indicators, 371 Wright, James D\", 150, 217, 283 Vaughan, Peter W\", 349, 353 Social Science Data Archives, 151 Writing social research, 503-509\" Vaughn, Angela, 428 Statisrical Abstract, 335 Verba, Sidney, 402 statistics, 335, 336 See also Report writing Verifying, 308 survey research, 278, 284 Wysocki. M\" I, 177 Veroff, Joseph, 105 \"tearoom\" research, 73 Virtual ethnography, 294 web-based experiments, 237 Xerox, 301-302 Voice recognition (VR), 272 world development indicators, 332 Voluntary participation, 26-27, 62- Yammarino, Francis, 263 Webb, Eugene J\", 319, 346 Yates, Frank, A20 63 Weber, Max, 75, 339, 343 Yerg, Beverly, 458 Votaw, Carmen Delgado, 117 Weber, Robert Philip, 346 Yinger. J\" Milton, 227 VR. 272 Weighting, 213 Yugoslavia, 126-127 Weinkam, II. 469, 470 Walker, Janice R, 511 Weiss, Carol, 360 Zaino, Jeanne, 428, 486 Walker. Jeffery, 272 Weitzer. Ronald, 95 Zangrando, Robert, 76 Wallace, Walter, 23 Weitzman, Lenore J., 97 Zerbib, Sandrine, 311. 393 Warriner. G\" Keith, 235 Welfare policy, 302 Zero-order relationship, 436 Weaver, Randy, 294 Wells, Ida B, 320 Zey, Mary, 117 Web address, 502 West. Patricia Salter, 440, 441 Zhang, Ray, 24 Web-based experiments, 237 Zhao, Shanyang, 275 Web citations, 502 ZieseL Hans, 429 Znaniecki. Florian, 341