Appropriate for students enrolled in research methods or statistics courses in any of the social sciences or social service disciplines such criminology, health sciences, management, nursing, psychology, public administration, social work, sociology, or women’s studies. The 16 articles in this reader are professional studies that span a range of disciplines and diverse qualitative and quantitative methods. Issues raised are directly relevant to all social research. The editors made their selections to provide easy access to more detailed and concrete examples than those typically found in Methods texts. The purposes of this reader are as