This book encourages students to adopt a particular mindset towards journal articles., a mindset that recognizes the many strengths of social research-especially its advantages over ordinary ways of knowing things.

An all-new, brief reference work that gives practical advice about the variety of writing tasks and issues that undergraduate students undertake in their introductory sociology courses.

Explaining the techniques and applications of exponential random graph modeling (ERGM) for social scientists, this is a uniquely sophisticated volume for examining social systems.