Dan Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, recently published the second edition of a research methods textbook, Making Sense of the Social World: Methods of Investigation, with Russell K. Schutt. The book is a comprehensive introduction to social science methods, including surveys, interviews, experiments, elementary causal and data analysis, and issues of data synthesis and conceptualization, and occasionally includes examples from Hamilton's Mellon Foundation Assessment Project, a longitudinal study of student educational experiences at Hamilton.
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