Use of Spss
SPSS Companion for Research Methods
Revised Third Edition
Melanie Arthur
Portland State University
Contents
Preface PART 1: BASIC MOVES IN SPSS PART 2: CHAPTER KEYED SPSS EXERCISES 1-Human Inquiry and Science 2-Paradigms, Theory, and Social Research 3-The Ethics and Politics of Social Research 4-Research Design 5-Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Measurement 6-Indexes, Scales, and Typologies 7-The Logic of Sampling 8-Experiments 9-Survey Research 10-Qualitative Field Research 11-Unobtrusive Research 12-Evaluation Research 13-Qualitative Data Analysis 14-Quantitative Data Analysis 15-The Elaboration Model 16-Social Statistics 17-Reading and Writing Social Research 1 31 31 32 32 32 34 36 38 39 41 41 41 42 43 43 44 45 47
Preface
This booklet contains a concise, user-friendly introduction to SPSS Student Version 11.0, with updates for SPSS Student Version 12.0, along with chapter-by-chapter SPSS exercises. The exercises have been organized to correlate with the chapters in Earl Babbie’s The Practice of Social Research, 10th Edition, but can be used with any Wadsworth social research methods or statistics text. The data sets referenced in these exercises are available for bundling with Wadsworth’s SPSS Student Version 11.0 CD-ROM and/or 12.0 CD-ROM. Instructions for accessing these data sets via SPSS can be found in the liner notes accompanying the SPSS Student Version CDROM.
SPSS FOR WINDOWS STUDENT VERSION
A GUIDE FOR STUDENTS
PART 1: BASIC MOVES IN SPSS 11.0 and SPSS 12.0
INTRODUCTION For sociology and the other human sciences, personal computers have become a blessing accompanied by the obligatory curse. The blessing is this: Powerful, user-friendly programs like SPSS have made data analysis a lot easier. Not all that many years ago, the author of this guide was balancing Styrofoam cups of stale coffee and sleepy frustration at 3:00 AM, waiting for a de-bug run from a mainframe. And, yes, we were using early versions of SPSS back in
Revised Third Edition
Melanie Arthur
Portland State University
Contents
Preface PART 1: BASIC MOVES IN SPSS PART 2: CHAPTER KEYED SPSS EXERCISES 1-Human Inquiry and Science 2-Paradigms, Theory, and Social Research 3-The Ethics and Politics of Social Research 4-Research Design 5-Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Measurement 6-Indexes, Scales, and Typologies 7-The Logic of Sampling 8-Experiments 9-Survey Research 10-Qualitative Field Research 11-Unobtrusive Research 12-Evaluation Research 13-Qualitative Data Analysis 14-Quantitative Data Analysis 15-The Elaboration Model 16-Social Statistics 17-Reading and Writing Social Research 1 31 31 32 32 32 34 36 38 39 41 41 41 42 43 43 44 45 47
Preface
This booklet contains a concise, user-friendly introduction to SPSS Student Version 11.0, with updates for SPSS Student Version 12.0, along with chapter-by-chapter SPSS exercises. The exercises have been organized to correlate with the chapters in Earl Babbie’s The Practice of Social Research, 10th Edition, but can be used with any Wadsworth social research methods or statistics text. The data sets referenced in these exercises are available for bundling with Wadsworth’s SPSS Student Version 11.0 CD-ROM and/or 12.0 CD-ROM. Instructions for accessing these data sets via SPSS can be found in the liner notes accompanying the SPSS Student Version CDROM.
SPSS FOR WINDOWS STUDENT VERSION
A GUIDE FOR STUDENTS
PART 1: BASIC MOVES IN SPSS 11.0 and SPSS 12.0
INTRODUCTION For sociology and the other human sciences, personal computers have become a blessing accompanied by the obligatory curse. The blessing is this: Powerful, user-friendly programs like SPSS have made data analysis a lot easier. Not all that many years ago, the author of this guide was balancing Styrofoam cups of stale coffee and sleepy frustration at 3:00 AM, waiting for a de-bug run from a mainframe. And, yes, we were using early versions of SPSS back in