Required Readings

Course Reader (sample proposals and SRPs): Available for purchase at A.S. Soft Reserves on campus, Student Center A. Their phone number is 858-534-6256.

NOTE: Real World Research is the one and only required book for this coures. It is available for purchase at the Price Center Bookstore, and on reserve at Geisel Library's front desk.  Note: We will use this book in USP 187 as well.

Recommended Readings (on reserve)
You do not need to purchase these books to excel in the Senior Sequence. Becker (1998) has some handy tips in it. Mills (2000) is a classic originally published in 1959; the section describing the "sociological imagination" is especially good. The Chicago Manuel of Style is expensive, but for those of you who intend to do a lot of scholarly writing it is a good investment. It spells out-- in painful detail-- the standards governing scholarly publication.

Andranovich, G. and G. Riposa (1993). Doing urban research. Newbury Park, Calif., Sage Publications.

Becker, H. S. (1998). Tricks of the trade : how to think about your research while you're doing it. Chicago, Ill., University of Chicago Press.

Danermark, B. et al. (2002). Explaining society : critical realism in the social sciences. London ; New York, Routledge.

Lofland, J. and L. H. Lofland (1995). Analyzing social settings : a guide to qualitative observation and analysis. Belmont, Calif., Wadsworth.

Marshall, C. and G. B. Rossman (1999). Designing qualitative research. Thousand Oaks, Calif., Sage Publications.

Mills, C. W. (2000). The sociological imagination. Oxford [England] New York, Oxford University Press.

Senior Sequence Reader Click here to go to the SS Reader's Table of Contents

University of Chicago Press (2003). The Chicago manual of style. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.