Date:         Thu, 18 Mar 1999 09:51:54 -0600
Reply-To:     "Weeks, Kyle" <kweeks@SPSS.COM>
Sender:       "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Weeks, Kyle" <kweeks@SPSS.COM>
Subject:      FW: textbook on the research process in the social sciences
Comments: To: "ghilkhuysen@HOTMAIL.COM" <ghilkhuysen@HOTMAIL.COM>

You may want to take a look at out website at
http://www.spss.com/software/spss/atwork/education/bundled.htm.  These
textbooks are bundled with a student version of SPSS.  The page contains a
brief description of each title and links to the respective publishers for
more information.
 
Best regards.
 
Kyle Weeks, Ph.D.
> Associate Market Manager
> SPSS Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory, Chris
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 9:43 AM
> To:   Weeks, Kyle
> Subject:      RE: textbook on the research process in the social sciences
>
> Actually, he can take a look at the book list at
> http://www.spss.com/software/spss/atwork/education/bundled.htm.  This will
> give him a brief overview of each title plus a link to each respective
> publisher for more information.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gaston Hilkhuysen [SMTP:ghilkhuysen@HOTMAIL.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 3:44 AM
> To:   SPSSX-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU
> Subject:      textbook on the research process in the social sciences
>
> I am planning to give a course on the research process in the social
> sciences. The course should contain the following topics
>
> -defining the aim of a study
> -constructing a conceptual model
> -measering the concepts of the conceptual model
> -data-analysis
>
> This much to do in one course (some of you might use a whole curriculum on
> the topic), but the aim of this course is to 'remind' people who have
> masters in sociology, social geography, administration and urban planning
> how to do research. After the course they should also beable to play
> around
> with a statiscal package and do their own simple stats.
>
> Can anyone give me a title of a recent decent textbook I could use.
>
> TIA.
>
> Gaston L.M. Hilkhuysen
>
>
> (excuses for any crosspostings)