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Greenstein (sociology, North Carolina State U.) and Davis (sociology, George Mason U.) teach students how to read research on families. They explain how this research is conducted and how to read journal articles and books reporting it, with a focus on interpreting and understanding common techniques and not on the mechanics of conducting it. They discuss issues in the philosophy of science, the concept of variables, analyzing a typical research article, literature searches, sampling, measurement and operationalization, creating and finding scales, and quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods, as well as secondary data sets, descriptive and inferential statistical techniques, evaluating applied family programs, and political and ethical issues. This edition has a new chapter on advanced topics in family data analysis, an expanded chapter on qualitative methods, updated examples, and some reorganization. It adds discussion of identifying and specifying context, cross-sectional vs. longitudinal designs, the use of online search systems, observation, and other topics. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
