Exploring Social Issues: Using SPSS for Windows 95 Versions 7.5, 8.0, or Higher

This revised edition guides users of SPSS for Windows 95 and, like its predecessor, helps teach students how to 'do' social science, by showing how compelling social issues can be explored by analyzing social data. The book is written specifically for beginning research students and is accompanied by a data disk. It stresses active learning, as students are guided step-by-step through the exercises. No previous experience with computers, Windows, SPSS, statistics, or social research is required. An Instructor's Manual is available to lecturers who adopt the book, and request it on their institution's letterhead.

This revised edition guides users of SPSS for Windows 95 and, like its predecessor, helps teach students how to 'do' social science, by showing how compelling social issues can be explored by analyzing social data. The book is written specifically for beginning research students and is accompanied by a data disk. It stresses active learning, as students are guided step-by-step through the exercises. No previous experience with computers, Windows, SPSS, statistics, or social research is required. An Instructor's Manual is available to lecturers who adopt the book, and request it on their institution's letterhead.

John Boli, Emory University, is the author or co-author of six books and many articles and chapters on education, globalization, and political sociology, including The Globalization Reader (Blackwell,1999), Constructing World Culture (Stanford University Press,1999), Cream of the Crop (Basic Books, 1994) and Institutional Structure: Constituting State, Society, and the Individual (Sage, 1987).