Adventures in Social Research: Data Analysis Using IBM SPSS Statistics

About Earl R. BabbieJeanne S. ZainoWilliam E. WagnerWilliam E. Wagner-Huang

Earl Babbie was born in Detroit Michigan in 1938 but his family chose to return to Vermont 3 months later and he grew up there and in New Hampshire. In 1956 he set off for Harvard Yard where he spent the next 4 years learning more than he initially planned. After 3 years with the US Marine Corps mostly in Asia he began graduate studies at the University of CaliforniaBerkeley. He received his PhD from Berkeley in 1969. He taught sociology at the University of Hawaii from 1968 through 1979 took time off from teaching and research to write full-time for 8 years and then joined the faculty at Chapman University in Southern California in 1987. Although he is the author of several research articles and monographs he is best known for the many textbooks he has written which have been widely adopted in colleges throughout the United States and the world. He also has been active in the American Sociological Association for 25 years and currently serves on the ASAs executive committee. He is also past president of the Pacific Sociological Association and California Sociological Association. 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). Jeanne Zaino Associate Professor of Political Science Iona College earned a bachelors degree in political science and a masters degree in survey research at the University of ConnecticutStorrs. During that time she worked as a research assistant at the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. She went on to earn a masters degree and PhD in political science from the University of MassachusettsAmherst. She is currently chair of the Political Science Department at Iona College in New Rochelle New York where she teaches courses in American government institutions research methods social statistics public opinion scope and methods. She and her husband Jeff are the proud parents of two sons Maxim and Logan.