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Lab and Class Notes

May 8: Welcome to Social Research

• Class notes outline (PDF - requires the free Acrobat Reader)
• Lab: Introduction to SPSS

May 10:  The Process of Social Research

• Class notes outline (PDF)

May 15:  Conceptualization and Measurement

• Class notes outline (PDF)
• Lab: Frequency distributions, graphical displays, transforming data

May 17:  Sampling

• Class notes outline (PDF)

May 22:  Causation and Research Design

• Class notes outline (PDF)
• Lab: Summarizing univariate distributions; measures of central tendency and dispersion

May 24:  Experiments and Experimental Thinking

• Class notes outline (PDF)

May 31:  Interviewing I

• Class notes outline (PDF)

June 5:  Interviewing II

• Class notes outline (PDF)
• Lab: Measuring association; crosstabulations

June 7:  Observation of Behavior

• Class notes outline (PDF)

June 12:  Text Analysis

• Class notes outline (PDF)
• Lab: Comparing groups; t-tests; graphical displays

June 14:  Integration and Review

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