Essentials of Social Statistics for a Diverse Society

Essentials of Social Statistics for a Diverse Society, by Anna Leon-Guerrero, Chava Frankfort-Nachmias, and Georgiann Davis, is a briefer version of the successful Social Statistics for a Diverse Society, and as in the parent text, the use of real data about contemporary social issues sets this book apart from others in the field. The text explains how to compute and interpret basic descriptive and inferential statistics while teaching and reinforcing important sociological concepts. In every chapter, the authors demonstrate how statistics is an important tool for studying and understanding the role of race, class, gender, and other statuses in a pluralistic society like the United States.



Author: Anna Y. Leon-Guerrero, Chava Frankfort-Nachmias, Georgiann Davis
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: 10/16/2020
Pages: 456
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 7.30w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781544372501

About the Author
Leon-Guerrero, Anna Y.: - Anna Leon-Guerrero is a professor of sociology at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. A recipient of the university's Faculty Excellence Award and the K. T. Tang Award for Excellence in Research, she teaches courses on statistics, sociological theory, and social problems. As a social service program evaluator and consultant, she has focused her research on welfare reform, employment strategies for the working poor, and program assessment. She is the coauthor of Social Statistics for a Diverse Society and Essentials of Social Statistics for a Diverse Society (with Chava Frankfort-Nachmias).Frankfort-Nachmias, Chava: - Chava Frankfort-Nachmias is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the coauthor of Research Methods in the Social Sciences (with David Nachmias), coeditor of Sappho in the Holy Land (with Erella Shadmi) and numerous publications on ethnicity and development, urban revitalization, science and gender, and women in Israel. She was the recipient of the University of Wisconsin System teaching improvement grant on integrating race, ethnicity, and gender into the social statistics and research methods curriculum. She is also the coauthor (with Anna Leon-Guerrero) of Social Statistics for a Diverse Society.Davis, Georgiann: -

Georgiann Davis is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. An award-winning instructor, researcher, and scholar-activist, she received her PhD in sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis.