Capital punishment from the polls to the paper : organizing online data to explain changes over time /
This case study incorporates online data from national polling firms and nonprofit organizations on the topic of public support for capital punishment, synthesizing the information to provide sociological explanations for the variance in support for the death penalty across multiple social locations...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications, Ltd.,
2022.
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| Series: | SAGE research methods: doing research online.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This case study incorporates online data from national polling firms and nonprofit organizations on the topic of public support for capital punishment, synthesizing the information to provide sociological explanations for the variance in support for the death penalty across multiple social locations and over time. Written for the research novice, the detailed illustrations from the research findings provide a roadmap for the student to learn to compile and organize information, introduce the topic to the audience, provide explanatory rationales for the findings, and support the findings with theory. The final section, evaluation of the policy, brings the research process to closure, providing the student with a start-to-finish overview of research methods used by social scientists focused on a historical-comparative approach. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9781529604269 1529604265 |