General Introduction 1
PART Ⅰ AN INTRODUCTION TO INQUIRY 5
Chapter 1:Why Do You Need to Understand Research Methods？ 5
1．From the Sociological Imagination&C.Wright Mills 9
2．The Reality of Everyday Life&Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann 13
Chapter 2:Combining Theory with Research Questions 19
3．Delinquency of Chinese-Canadian Youth:A Test of Opportunity,Control,and Intergeneration Conflict Theories&Siu Kwong Wong 24
4．School Tracking and Student Violence&Lissa J.Yogan 33
5．Murder Followed by Suicide in Australia,1973-1992:A Research Note&Jo Barnes 44
Chapter 3:Ethics 53
6．Nuremberg and the Issue of Wartime Experiments on U.S.Prisoners:The Green Committee&Jon M.Harkness 58
7．Problems of Ethics in Research&Stanley Milgram 66
8．The Ethics of Conducting Social-Science Research on the Internet&James C.Hamilton 74
PART Ⅱ THE STRUCTURING OF INQUIRY 79
Chapter 4:Research Design 79
9．Public Assistance Receipt Among Immigrants and Natives:How the Unit of Analysis Affects Research Findings&Jennifer Van Hook,Jennifer E.Glick,and Frank D.Bean 84
10．Consequences of Participating in a Longitudinal Study of Marriage&Joseph Veroff,Shirley Hatchett,and Elizabeth Douvan 93
Chapter 5:Conceptualization and Operationalization 101
11．Conceptualization of Terrorism&Jack P.Gibbs 104
12．A Systematic Qualitative Evaluation of Levels of Differentiation in Families with Children at Risk&Yeudit Avnir and Ron Shor 111
13．Scale for Assessing Emotional Disturbance:Long-Term Test-Retest Reliability and Convergent Validity with Kindergarten and First-Grade Students&Michael H.Epstein,Philip D.Nordness,Douglas Cullinan,and Melody Hertzog 123
Chapter 6:Indexes and Scales 133
14．Environmental Waste:Recycling Attitudes and Correlates&Knurd S.Larsen 137
15．The Reverse Social Distance Scale&Motoko Y.Lee,Stephen G.Sapp,and Melvin C.Ray 141
16．Bias Towards Gay Patients by Psychoanalytic Clinicians:An Empirical Investigation&Arthur H.Lilling and Richard C.Friedman 148
Chapter 7:Sampling 155
17．Sex in America&Robert T.Michael,John H.Gagnon,Edward O.Laumann,and Gina Kolata 159
18．Alcoholics Anonymous and the Use of Medications to Prevent Relapse:An Anonymous Survey of Member Attitudes&Robert G.Rychtarik,Gerard J.Connors,Kurt H.Dermen,and Paul R.Stasiewicz 167
PART Ⅲ MODES OF OBSERVATIONS 173
Chapter 8:Experimental and Survey Research 173
19．Intraoperative Progress Reports Decrease Family Members'Anxiety&Jane S.Leske 178
20．Sex in America—The Sex Survey&Robert T.Michael,John H.Gagnon,Edward O.Laumann,and Gina Kolata 187
21．The Internet and Opinion Measurement:Surveying Marginalized Populations&Nadine S.Koch and Jolly A.Emrey 194
Chapter 9:Field Research and Unobtrusive Measures 201
22．Amateur Stripping and Gaming Encounters:Fun in Games or Gaming as Fun？&Julie Ann Harms Cannon,Thomas C.Calhoun,and Rhonda Fisher 206
23．The Evolution of Al-Anon:A Content Analysis of Stories in Two Editions of Its“Big Book.”（Mutual Help for Alcohol-Related Problems:Studies of Al-Anon and of Alternatives to Alcoholics Anonymous）&Jane E.Martin 216
24．Thinking Through the Heart&Ann Goetting 228
Chapter 10:Existing Data and Evaluation Research 235
25．What Sociologists Do and Where They Do It—The NSF Survey on Sociologist's Work Activities and Workplaces&Robert J.Dotzler and Ross Koppel 237
26．Professors Who Make the Grade（Factors That Affect Students'Grades of Professors）&Vicky L.Seiler and Michael J.Seiler 248
PART Ⅳ ANALYZING DATA 257
Chapter 11:An Introduction to Statistics 257
27．Elementary Applied Statistics:For Students in Behavioral Science&Linton C.Freeman 262
28．Nothing New Under the Sun？A Comparison of Images of Women in Israeli Advertisements in 1979 and 1994&Anat First 272
Chapter 12:Writing and Reading a Research Paper 283
29．Aids and the Media:A Look at How Periodicals Influence Children and Teenagers in Their Knowledge of AID&Diane Kholos Wysocki and Rebecca Harrison 292
Glossary 299
Index 309