Deciphering Sociological Research

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-5
Beginnings....Pages 7-12
Framework....Pages 13-33
Concepts and Indicators....Pages 34-48
Sampling....Pages 49-66
Data Analysis....Pages 67-86
Techniques for Deciphering....Pages 87-107
Field-work and Qualitative Data: The Research....Pages 108-116
Field-work and Qualitative Data: The Deciphering....Pages 117-141
Conclusions and Implications....Pages 142-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-161
Other-directedness in Consumer-goods Advertising: A Test of Riesman’s Historical Theory....Pages 163-169
Becoming a Marijuana User....Pages 170-179
Social Roles and Processes of Socialization in the Prison Community....Pages 180-191
Multiple Drug Use among Marijuana Smokers....Pages 192-206
Occupational Prestige and Social Mobility of Suicides in New Zealand....Pages 207-216
Some Sociological Concomitants of Academic Streaming in a Grammar School....Pages 217-230
Girls, Boys and Politics....Pages 231-243
Father-to-Son Mobility: Australia in Comparative Perspective....Pages 244-252
Class Conflict and Images of Society....Pages 253-264
School Performance viewed from the Boys....Pages 265-275
Kids, Cops and Conflict....Pages 276-285
Front Matter....Pages 157-161
The Burden of Rheumatoid Arthritis: Tolerating the Uncertainty....Pages 286-297
Additional Studies....Pages 298-303
Back Matter....Pages 305-325