"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. He also has been active in the American Sociological Association for 25 years and currently serves on the ASA’s executive committee. He is also past president of the Pacific Sociological Association and California Sociological Association. Although he is the author of several research articles and monographs, he is best known for the many textbooks he has written, which have been widely adopted in colleges throughout the United States and the world. He taught sociology at the University of Hawaii from 1968 through 1979, took time off from teaching and research to write full-time for 8 years, and then joined the faculty at Chapman University in Southern California in 1987. He received his PhD from Berkeley in 1969. After 3 years with the US Marine Corps, mostly in Asia, he began graduate studies at the University of California―Berkeley. In 1956, he set off for Harvard Yard, where he spent the next 4 years learning more than he initially planned. The Data Preparation add-on module must be used with the SPSS 15.0 Base systemandiscompletelyintegratedintothatsystem. The SPSS Data Preparation optional add-on module provides the additional analytic techniques described in this manual. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Įarl Babbie was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1938, but his family chose to return to Vermont 3 months later, and he grew up there and in New Hampshire. SPSS 15.0 is a comprehensive system for analyzing data.
Presents the latest version of SPSS for Windows: Readers are introduced to computerized data analysis using the latest version of SPSS for Windows (14.0 & 15.0).
In this thoroughly revised edition, authors Earl Babbie, Fred Halley, and Jeanne Zaino stress active and collaborative learning as students engage in a series of practical investigative exercises. The current study examines whether R or SPSS output induces greater initial anxiety in students and whether anxiety toward one or both changes after being taught one type of software output. *This edition comes already bundled with the student version of SPSS software. For the version without SPSS student software, please order ISBN: 9781412940832.*Īdventures in Social Research with SPSS Student Version: Data Analysis Using SPSS 14.0 and 15.0 for Windows, Sixth Edition guides readers step-by-step through the process of data analysis using the latest version of SPSS and the most up to date version of the General Social Survey.