Statistics for Social Understanding - Howard J Gold

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Auteur(s) : Howard J Gold - Nancy E Whittier - Tina Wildhagen

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/08/2024

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 714

Dimensions : 25.4 x 20.6 x 4.2

ISBN : 1538175932

Résumé :

An engaging, problem-based approach that tackles real-world issues

Biographie:

Nancy Whittier is Professor of Sociology and a member of the Women's Studies Program Committee at Smith College. She is the author of Feminist Generations: The Persistence of the Radical Women's Movement.

Tina Wildhagen is Professor of Sociology at Smith College. Her work has appeared in various scholarly journals, including The Sociological Quarterly, Sociological Perspectives, The Teachers College Record, The Journal of Negro Education and Sociology Compass.

Howard J. Gold is Professor of Government at Smith College. Gold's research focuses on public opinion, partisanship and voting behavior. He is the author of Parties, Polarization and Democracy in the United States and Hollow Mandates: American Public Opinion and the Conservative Shift.

Sommaire:

Nancy E. Whittier is Sophia Smith Professor of Sociology at Smith College. She has taught statistics and research methods for over 30 years, and also teaches classes on gender, sexuality, and social movements. She is the author of Frenemies: Feminists, Conservatives, and Sexual Violence (Oxford University Press, 2018), The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Emotions, Social Movements, and the State (Oxford University Press, 2009), Feminist Generations (Temple, 1995), and numerous articles on social movements, gender, and sexual violence, and is co-editor of Feminist Frontiers (10th edition, Rowman & Littlefield, 2020, with Verta Taylor and Leila Rupp).
Tina Wildhagen is Associate Professor of Sociology at Smith College. She has taught statistics and quantitative research methods for 15 years, and also teaches courses on privilege and power in American education and inequality in higher education. Her research and teaching focus on social inequality in the American education system and on first-generation college students. Her work appears in various scholarly journals, including The Sociological Quarterly, Sociological Perspectives, The Teachers College Record, The Journal of Negro Education and Sociology Compass.
Howard J. Gold is Professor of Government at Smith College. He has taught statistics for over 30 years, and also teaches courses on American elections, public opinion and the media, and political behavior. His research focuses on voting behavior, partisanship, and third parties. He is the co-author (with Donald Baumer) of Parties, Polarization and Democracy in the United States and author of Hollow Mandates: American Public Opinion and the Conservative Shift. His work has also appeared in American Politics Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Polity, Public Opinion Quarterly and the Social Science Journal.