Product Description: This bundle includes Schutt: Understanding the Social World and Schutt: Understanding the Social World Interactive eBook Student Version

Product Description: Understanding the Social World: Research Methods for the 21st Century is a textbook for the fast-paced, globally interconnected social world of the new century.  Author Russell K. Schutt rises to the research requirements of a social world shaped by big data and social media, Instagram and avatars, blogs, and tweets; and he confronts the research challenges created by cell phones, privacy concerns, linguistic diversity and multicultural neighborhoods...read more

We offer these texts bundled together at a discount for your students. The eBook is FREE when packaged with the print version of this book.Like its predecessors, this Fifth Edition provides complete coverage of the use and results of the contemporary methods employed in criminology and criminal justice research today. Specifically designed for undergraduate and beginning graduate criminal justice courses and programs, this text teaches research design and techniques within the context of substantive criminology and criminal justice issues of interest to students who will become professionals in the field. Students learn about the wide realm of research methods available to them, delve deeper into topics relevant to their field of study, and benefit from the wide variety of exercises included in the text and on the student study website that help them practice as they learn.Electronic BookThis dynamic new format is ideal for students in online and traditional courses who prefer a more contemporary, multimedia-integrated presentation for learning. It provides students with an online book that can be read from any device, ability to download a digital copy and search, highlight and bookmark the text.Need help finding the bundle that will best meet your course goals? Contact your Sales Representative.

Product Description: This bundle includes Schutt: Investigating the Social World 8E and SPSS Version 23.0

 Making Sense of the Social World: Methods of Investigation presents an engaging, accessible, and accurate introduction to social research. Authors Daniel F. Chambliss and Russell K. Schutt present the logic and essential techniques of research methods with a light, readable writing style and without skimping on critical concepts or recent developments. More than a brief derivative of Schutt's widely successful Investigating the Social World, this compelling volume focuses on validity as a unifying concept and supplies an integrated treatment of research ethics and research practices with innovative examples and exercises.   Intended as a methods text for Sociology, Criminal Justice, Media Studies, Political Science, and Public Administration undergraduate students, Making Sense of the Social World is indispensable reading for anyone who needs a functional understanding of research methods.    

The Fourth Edition of Russell Schutt's successful social research text, Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research, links the "doing" of social research to important social issues, including research on the Internet and social relations, substance abuse, homelessness, and gender roles. The Fourth Edition now includes a new chapter on evaluation research (Chapter 10) and a new, comprehensive qualitative data and content analysis chapter (Chapter 13). The qualitative analysis software integrated into the text and CD is now from HyperRESEARCH and an expanded, comprehensive Instructor's Resource CD containing PowerPoint slide sets for each chapter, test questions, illustrations from the book for transparency masters, and much more is available. Investigating the Social World is an engaging, accessible introductory text for research methods courses in sociology, criminal justice, social work, communication and journalism, and political science and public administration.        

Product Description: This bundle includes Schutt: Investigating the Social World, 8e and Schutt: Investigating the Social World, 8e Interactive eBook

Product Description: We offer these texts bundled together at a discount for your students. Engel: Funamentals of Social Work Research Designed to help students develop skills in evaluating research and conducting studies, this brief version of the popular, The Practice of Research in Social Work, makes principles of evidence-based practice come alive through illustrations of actual social work research...read more

Product Description: This bundle includes Investigating the Social World, 8e, Schutt: Investigating the Social World, 8e Interactive eBook, and SAGE IBM/SPSS Student Version DVD

Product Description: This bundle includes Nestor: Research Methods in Psychology, 2e and Kail: Scientific Writing for Psychology