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Questioning the Politics of NumbersHow to Read and Critique Research

Questioning the Politics of Numbers: How to Read and Critique Research shows students

how to read and critique research that employs

numbers in the course of empirical argument.

Author Karin Gwinn Wilkins provides a list of

guidelines for reading research and also presents a

critical approach to judging and using numbers in

navigating and changing social worlds.

Illuminating the agendas that often inform

research, the text considers how to read and

critique research contexts; research design;

sampling strategies; definitions; research

implementation; data analysis; and interpretation.

It also provides strong pedagogical support

including key terms, review exercises, and end-of-

chapter reflection questions.

A flexible supplement to more comprehensive

research texts, Questioning the Politics of

Numbers helps students to become more critical

consumers—and producers—of quantitative

research across the disciplines.

A B O U T T H E A U T H O R

Karin Gwinn Wilkins is a Professor in the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin.

“Questioning the Politics of Numbers provides a wonderful resource that will encourage students to critically examine the impact of numbers in their lives. Karin Gwinn Wilkins’s examination of the social, political, and psychological ramifications of empirical conclusions will ensure that students never take research for granted again.”—Andrea Lambert, Northern Kentucky University

“This is a good book for supplementing concepts used in a beginning research methods class. It contains useful chapter questions, exercises, and a nice glossary of research terms. It can be especially helpful to students learning how to read and assess scholarly and proprietary research.” —Kathie Wilcox, Lewis-Clark State College

“I like the way Wilkins integrates a broad range of concepts within chapters. For students who have already had some training in research methods and who are working diligently on reviews of the scholarly research literature (e.g., undergraduate students in an advanced methods course and graduate students), this book will be very useful.”—Mark Comadena, Illinois State University

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S E V E N T H E D I T I O N

THE UNFINISHED

JOURNEYAmerica Since World War II

“Still the best-written text on the period.”—Paul Barrett, Illinois Institute of Technology

“Beautifully written. . . . Unquestionably the finest history of the post-World War Two era.”

—Lewis H. Carlson, Western Michigan University

“The Unfinished Journey still makes our students feel the history of the postwar era and is unsurpassed in its civil rights coverage.”

—Mollie C. Davis, Queens College

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This popular and classic text chronicles America’s roller-coaster journey through the decades since World War II. Considering both the paradoxes and the possibilities of postwar America, William H. Chafe portrays the significant cultural

and political themes that have colored our country’s past and present, including issues of race, class, gender, foreign policy, and economic and social reform. He examines such subjects as the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, the origins and the end of the Cold War, the culture of the 1970s, the rise of the New Right, the events of September 11th and their aftermath, and various presidencies.

Now thoroughly revised and updated, the seventh edition of The Unfinished Journey combines and reorganizes several chapters. The former Chapter 14, “New Rules, Old Realities,” is now divided into two chapters. The new Chapter 14, “An Era of Political Malaise,” covers the political history of the 1970s. It is followed by Chapter 15, “A Divided Culture, A Divided Society,” which assesses the shifting cultural landscape of the 1970s and the emergence of major fissures in the social system of the nation. The final chapter contains substantial new material on the administration of George W. Bush, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the election of 2008, and the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency. Brilliantly written by a prize-winning historian, The Unfinished Journey, Seventh Edition, is an essential text for all students of recent American history.

A B O U T T H E AU T H O R

WILLIAM H. CHAFE is Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History at Duke University. He is the author or coeditor of several books, including Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South (2008), The Rise and Fall of the American Century: The United States from 1890–2009 (OUP, 2007), A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America, Seventh Edition (OUP, 2007), Private Lives/Public Consequences: Personality and Politics in Modern America (2005), and Never Stop Running: Allard K. Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism (1998). He is a former president of the Organization of American Historians and his books have been recognized with the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award (1981), the Sidney Hillman Book Award (1994), and the Lillian Smith Book Award (2003).

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