Research Methods J. Friedman, Spring 2009 Office: Lucy Stone B209 445 0054 Reading list ______________________________ Useful websites: Website for your textbook chapter quizes and flash cards; many links Rutgers Camden Sociology Dept videos on methods topic by Robert Woods: --Variables --Causal arguments --3-variable analysis --Research methods tutorial How to take notes, Christopher Leo Rutgers Sociology Honors Program ____________________________ More information on various topics Bateson Eyes (full article; not required) early material Types of Research Practice: unit, variables [Try this] Steps in a research project Measurement -examples of conceptualization -strategies for developing an operational definition -example of measurement: bullying -Types of validity -levels of measurement with examples from Harrell Cause -Big Three, and more -Example: table with percent difference Sampling -directions for practice problems -practice problems -sampling distributions After test, more on samples -stratified samples -cluster samples -calculating confidence intervals Tables -Outline of 3-variable table Experiments -True experiments

______________________________ In the News analysis of the New Hampshire polls Bill Moyers Journal on Polls 2008 The Gallop Poll economy and environment, trends in concern _____________________________ Her first frequency distribution, Halloween: see my kitten (12/06) kitten grows up (12/07) kitten at two More information on Research Ethics: IRBs, Human Subjects Rutgers' policies on Human Subjects Research Professional Assn Codes of Ethics Ethics in Criminal Justice Research Ethics in Internet Research a report by the AAAS American Sociological Assn. Code of Ethics Ethics in research on children _______________________________ Websites with magazine covers [I found these using google. I search using,as key words, cover andthe magazine name. There must be many more files.] Many magazines A website with so many magazines that you first select the type of magazine. Time Magazine Esquire Life -- every cover, 1936-1972 Seventeen Cosmopolitan Sports Illustrated Mad Magazine

Test Yourself and Review review sheet test 2 test yourself, test 2 -1 test yourself, test 2-2 answers for "test yourself" answers to sample problems ____________________ Really big numbers graphic sociology more visual sociology flowing data ____________________ GSS project Link to the GSS website Select the first data set, GSS through 2008\ GSS questionnaires Handouts on GSS assignment; you will begin to get these March 26 Preliminary information on GSS Background on the GSS Using the GSS software First Report Final Report Other ways to collect data History Matters: Oral history, Film, Maps, Letters and Diaries, Songs, political cartoons, more _________________________ Other Research Methods Websites Wadsworth Site for Earl Babbie's research methods textbook Links from another methods class, Dr. Tom O'Connor, Criminal Justice, South Carolina Wesleyan College] Resources for Evaluation Research _________________________ Content Analysis Project final recording form Directions for pretest and final report Table ____________________ review sheet, Test 1 matching quiz answers, matching quiz