1st Edition

Key Variables in Social Investigation

Edited By Robert Burgess Copyright 1986
    290 Pages
    by Routledge

    290 Pages
    by Routledge

    Key Variables in Social Investigation encourages sociologists and other social scientists to think about the conceptual and empirical problems of using and evaluating key variables in social research. The book contains reviews of ten major variables: age; gender; race and ethnicity; health and illness; education; social class and occupation; work, employment and unemployment and unemployment; leisure; politics; and voluntary ways in which concepts can be specified and translated into variables and indicators.

    Notes on contributors

    Preface

    1. Introduction, Robert G. Burgess

    2. Age, Janet Finch

    3. Gender, D.H.J. Morgan

    4. Race and Ethnicity, Martin Bulmer

    5. Health and Illness, Sally Macintyre

    6. Education, Robert G. Burgess

    7. Social Class and Occupation, Catherine Marsh

    8. Work, Employment and Unemployment, Kate Purcell

    9. Leisure, Stanley Parker

    10. Politics, David Jay

    11. Voluntary Associations, C.G. Pickvance

    12. Do Concepts, Variables and Indicators Interrelate?, Martin Bulmer and Robert G. Burgess

    Name Index

    Subject Index

    Biography

    Robert Burgess