The Practice of Survey Research: Theory and Applications

About Brian Joseph GillespieErin E. RuelErin RuelWilliam E. WagnerWilliam E. Wagner-Huang

Erin Ruel is associate professor of sociology and director of graduate studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta GA. She received her PhD in sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2003. In 2003 Erin took a postdoctoral position at the University of Wisconsin Madison in the Center for Demography of Health and Aging. While there she continued to hone her survey research skills on the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. Soon after arriving in Atlanta to take an assistant professor position at Georgia State University (GSU) in 2005 she began the Urban Health Initiative a longitudinal survey study of public housing residents facing involuntary relocation with GSU colleagues. Erin was principal investigator of the National Institutes of Health study on the health outcomes of relocated public housing residents and co-investigator on two National Science Foundation grants examining social disorganization and social support for public housing residents. She employs quantitative and mixed methods to examine health disparities and the health consequences of racial residential segregation neighborhood disadvantage housing and socioeconomic status. Ruel has published in numerous journals including Demography Social Forces Social Science Research Health and Place Journal of Housing Studies Cities Sociology Compass Journal of Adolescent Health and Journal of Urban Health. William E. Wagner III  PhD is Chair of the Department of Sociology at California State University Dominguez Hills and Executive Director of the Social Science Research & Instructional Council of the CSU. He is co-author of Adventures in Social Research 11th edition (SAGE 2022) The Practice of Survey Research (SAGE 2016) and A Guide to R for Social and Behavioral Sciences (SAGE 2020) and author of Using IBM® SPSS® Statistics for Research Methods and Social Science Statistics 7th edition (SAGE 2019). Brian Joseph Gillespie Ph.D. is a researcher in the Faculty of Spatial Sciences at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He is the author of Household Mobility in America: Patterns Processes and Outcomes (Palgrave 2017) and coauthor of The Practice of Survey Research: Theory and Applications (Sage 2016) and Using and Interpreting Statistics in the Social Behavioral and Health Sciences (Sage 2018). He has also published research in a variety of social science journals on topics related to family migration the life course and interpersonal relationships.