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گزیده کتاب
1. The Art of Social Research Developing an Appreciation for Social Complexity 2. Age and Demographic Social Research Key Variables in Social Research 3. Life Course Variations: The Midlife Crisis as a Social Phenomenon Elderly People and Relatives 4. Some Nondestructive Ways of Controlling Children How to Control Children by Love 5. Long-Term Impacts of Divorce on Children The Relationship Between Divorce & Length of Marriage, Age, Race and Religion (in the United States) 6. The Role of Culture: A Look at Edward Said Hegemony, Discourse, 7. Ethical Concerns and the Individual Social Researcher Ethics and the Scientific Community 8. Interpretive Social Science How the Interpretive Approach Sees Human Social Life 9. Survey Research: Steps in Conducting a Survey A History of Survey Research (Up to the End of World War II) 10. Threatening vs. Nonthreatening Questions in Questionnaires A History of Survey Research (Since the End of World War II) References