Applied Research Methods
Sociology 4395, PSY 4395
Syllabus
Click here for the Fall
2003 Syllabus.
Useful Web Sites
US Census Bureau
Census
Bureau News
Population
Tables and Reports
News
Releases
Overview
of Race and Hispanic Data
Texas State
Data Center
Institute
for Scientific Information
Society
for Scientific Exploration
Population
and Society Web Page
Statistics
**Statistical
Terminology
SPSS Inc. - Statistical
Package for the Social Sciences
Glossary
of Statistical Terms, Rice University
Stata
Tutorial
Resources
to help you learn Stata
Getting
Started on Stata
Stata Corporation
Stata
Modules
Qualitative
Data Analysis Software
Microsociology
Software Gallery (MACS only)
Databases
Survey
Research Center at Princeton
Databases
and Archives
Data
and Story Library
General
Social Survey Resources developed at Queen's College
ICPSR
Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving
Upenn Population
Studies
Upenn
Data Center
National
Science Foundation Databases
StatLib---Datasets
Archive
Umich
Data Sources
Research Organizations
ICPSR (Inter-University
Consortium for Political and Social Research)
RAND Organization--Public
Policy Research
The
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
General
Social Survey
Public Opinion
Laboratory
The Gallup Organization
Survey
Research Resources (Abelson)
Nielson
Media Research
Survey
Research Data and Sources (UMICH) Lots of data
00Institute
for Research In Social Science (UNC) Poll question database from 1960s
Social
Science Data Archive
See Virtual Library for more Research Organizations
Virtual Library
The Virtual
Library has been set up for your convenience. Whenever you do Sociological
Research online, please go there first.
You will find lots of excellent sources of data,
information about a variety of sociological topics, links to sociologists
and their
work, and a whole host of other interesting things.
A Publisher Site
Click here to access the Publisher
Site.
There are online quizes, reviews, and other things.
West Library
West Library
Databases are where you need to go to get peer reviewed sociological literature.
You need to have a current ID card issued at
the Front Desk of the Library.
Click on iLINK
· In the <BARCODE NUMBER> box at the
upper right of the screen, type the 7-digit ID number found on the front
of your campus ID.
· Tab to or click in the box labeled<
PIN >; type your Wesleyan PIN number then click on <LOGIN TO iLINK>..
· At the next screen, click < KNOWLEDGE
PORTAL > located near the top of the screen.
· At the next screen, click on < WORLD
WIDE WEB> under Knowledge Portal.
· At the next screen, click on <***WEST
LIBRARY'S ELECTRONIC RESOURCES***> on the left of the screen. Select Sociological
Sources
Email Contact
shorsfall@txwes.edu
If you need to contact the instructor, please
use this address.
Lecture Notes
Surveys
Experiment
Unobtrusive
Research
Observation
Triangulation,
Grounded Theory, Cross Cultural Research
First Measured Century
A PBS program about measuring life in the US during
the 20th century.
Many Sociology researchers are involved in this
program.
PBS Site: First
Measured Century
Program Segments
FMC1
FMC2
FMC3
Interviews
Baker,
Cronon, Jacobson, Kraut
Muncy,
Spain, Cooper, Lipset
Lynd,
Caplow, Geelhoed
Kennedy,
O'Neill
A.Gallup,
G.Gallup,Moore
Research Project/Social Science Terms
Research
Project
Social
Science Terms
Sample Paper:
“Campus
Crime and Safety of Students at Texas Wesleyan University”
by Daniel Gonzales
Infotrac
Infotrac
is
an Online Library to which you received a free four month subscription
with the purchase of your book (by Babbie). Your ID number came with the
textbook that you purchased. When you go to this site, you will have to
register, and then you have access to a data base of articles. It is similar
to Sociofile and some others. A very useful resource for papers.