Social Research Design Week 13: Evaluation Research

Overview of the Chapter

    Welcome to Week 13 of Sociology 201 online.  In this unit of the course, we'll shift gears from the ways of doing research to one of the reasons: evaluation research.

    The discussions and activities of this unit are linked to Chapter 12 of The Practice of Social Research. To preview the topics contained in Chapter 12, click here.  You can click on any of the major headings for a brief overview of that topic.  You might want to read the overview prior to reading that section of the chapter and/or read the overview after the chapter to make sure you got what you were supposed to get from it.

    Your tasks for completing this unit of the course are to:

(1) Preview and read Chapter 12,
(2) View the slide shows provided, and

Online Modules

Racial discrimination is a topic frequently examined by social researcher.  Click here to follow an examination of whether the death penalty discriminates on the basis of race.

Evaluation research gets you into the real world, where research has a clear impact on people's lives.  Click here for an assessment of some cost of living research conducted in Maui, Hawaii, in the 1970s.