Social Statistics for a Diverse Society: WITH Using SPSS for Social Statistics and Research Methods, 3edition

William E. Wagner, III, Professor of Sociology at California State University, Channel Islands, served as a member of the faculty and director of the Institute for Social and Community Research (ISCR) at CSUB prior to coming to CSU Channel Islands. His MA and PhD degrees in sociology are from the University of Illinois, Chicago. He holds two separate bachelor's degrees, one in mathematics and the other in sociology/anthropology, both from St. Mary's College of Maryland. His work on topics such as urban sociology, sports, homophobia, and academic status has been published in national and regional scholarly journals. Chava Frankfort-Nachmias is now an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where until recently she had been Director of the Center for Jewish Studies and teaching courses in research methods, statistics and gender. She is the co-author of Research Methods in the Social Sciences (with David Nachmias) and co-editor of Sappho in the Holy Land (with Erella Shadmi) and numerous publications on ethnicity and development, urban revitalization, science and gender, and women in Israel. She was the recipient of the University of Wisconsin System teaching improvement grant on integrating race, ethnicity and gender into the social statistics and research methods curriculum.