1.8: References, Key Terms and Concepts

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Bruhn, John G. and Howard M. Rebach. 2007. Sociological Practice: Intervention and Social Change. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Springer.

Burawoy, Michael. 2014. “Precious Engagements: Combat in the Realm of Public Sociology.” Current Sociology Monograph. 62(2):135-139.

Carl, John D. 2013. Think Social Problems. 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.

Griffiths, Heather, Nathan Keirns, Eric Strayer, Suasn Cody-Rydzewsk, Gail Scaramuzzo, Tommy Sadler, Sally Vyain, Jeff Byer, and Faye Jones. 2015. Introduction to Sociology 2e. Houston, TX: OpenStax College.

Henslin, James M. 2011. Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach. 11th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Mills, C. Wright. [1959] 2000. The Sociological Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press.

Steele, Stephen F. and Jammie Price. 2008. Applied Sociology: Terms, Topics, Tools, and Tasks. 2nd ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth.

Key Terms and Concepts

Antipositivism

Applied sociology

Basic sociology

Biography

Case studies

Clinical sociology

Close-ended questions

Dependent variable

Ethnography

Experiments

History

Independent variable

Interpretive framework

Interpretive perspective

Interview

Objective conditions

Open-ended questions

Participant observation

Positivism

Public sociology

Qualitative data

Quantitative data

Random sample

Reliability

Research methods

Research process

Scientific method

Secondary and document analysis

Social policies

Social research

Sociological imagination

Sociological practice

Sociological practitioner

Stratified random sample

Survey

Theories

Unobtrusive measures

Validity