A book/disk manual and collection of readings on employing General Social Survey (GSS) data and the professional program SPSS to analyze social issues. The text adds a computer skills and data analysis component to introductory courses in sociology, research methods, and statistics, using data on attitudes toward abortion to illustrate univariate, multivariate, and bivariate analysis. Includes sample questionnaires so that students n gather and analyze their own data. The disk contains variables representing cases from the 1990 GSS. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
