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Abrahams, Roger D.

Positively Black

Prentice-Hall

1970

Alinsky, Saul D. Reveille for Radicals Vintage Books 1989

Alonso, William and Paul Starr 

The Politics of Numbers

Russell Sage Foundation

1989

Arkin, Marcus

Aspects of Jewish Economic History

Jewish Publication Society of America

1975

Babbie, Earl and Allen Rubin Research Methods for Social Work, 4th edition Brooks Cole 2001
Babbie, Earl, Fred Halley, and Jeanne Zaino Adventures in Social Research: Data Analysis Using SPSS for Windows, fourth edition Pine Forge Press 2003
Babbie, Earl The Practice of Social Research: 12th Edition Thomson-Wadsworth 2004

Baldwin, James

Notes of a Native Son

Beacon Press

1955

Bamberger, Michael, Jim Rugh, Linda Mabry Real World Evaluation: Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints Sage Publications 2006
Banfield, Edward C. The Unheavenly City Revisited Little, Brown 1974
Baumgartner, Frank D.  and Bryan D. Jones Agendas and Instability in American Politics University of Chicago Press 1993
Berger, P.L. & Luckmann, T. The Social Construction of Reality Anchor Press 1960

Blalock, Hubert M., Jr.

Theory Construction: From Verbal to Mathematical Foundations

Prentice-Hall

1969

Blalock, Hubert M., Jr.

Conceptualization and Measurement in the Social Sciences

Sage Publications

1982

Blalock, Hubert M., Jr.

Causal Models in the Social Sciences

Aldine

1985

Blalock, Hubert M., Jr.

Basic Dilemmas in the Social Sciences

Sage Publications

1984

Blalock, Hubert M., Jr.

Causal Inferences in Non-experimental Research

University of North Carolina Press

1964

Bourdieu, Pierre Outline of a Theory of Practice Cambridge University Press 1977
Bourdieu, Pierre Reason. On the Theory of Action Cambridge: Polity 1998a 1998

Bouvier, Leon F.

Immigration and It's Impact on U.S. Society

Population Reference Bureau

1981

Boyd, Lawrence H., Jr. and Gudmund R. Iversen

Contextual Analysis: Concepts and Statistical Techniques

Wadsworth

1979

Burman, Stephen The Black Progress Question:  Explaining the African American Predicament Sage Publications 1995
Campbell, D.T., & Stanley, J.C Experimental and Quasi-experimental Designs for Research Houghton Mifflin 1963
Castells, Manuel. The City and the Grassroots The University of California Press 1983

Cohen, Abner

Two-Dimensional Man: An Essay on the Anthropology of Power and Symbolism in Complex Society.

University of California Press

1974

Cone, James H. Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare Orbis Books 1991

Cooley, William W. and Paul R. Lohnes

Multivariate Data Analysis

Wiley

1971

Davis, James A.

Elementary Survey Analysis

Prentice-Hall

1971

Delgado, Gary Organizing the Movement: The Roots and Growth of ACORN. Temple University Press 2008
Devore,  Jay L Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences (5th ed.) Duxbury Press 1999
Downes, A.  Neighborhoods and Urban Development Brookings Institution Press 1981

Duncan, Otis Dudley

Introduction to Structural Equation Models

Academic Press

1975

Eitzen, Stanley and Kenneth L. Stewart Solutions to Social Problems From the Bottom Up:  Successful Social Movements Allyn and Bacon 2007
Engle, R. and Schutt, R. The Practice of Research in Social Work Sage Publications 2005

Farley, Reynolds

The New American Reality: Who We Are, How We Got Here, Where We Are Going

Russell Sage Foundation

1996

Farley, Reynolds and Walter R. Allen

The Color Line and the Quality of Life in America

Russell Sage Foundation

1987

Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics

America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being

 

1999

Fink, Arlene and Jacqueline Kosecof

How to Conduct Surveys: A Step-by-Step Guide

Sage Publications

1985

Fitzpatrick, Kevin and Mark LaGory

The Ecology of Risk in the Urban Landscape: Unhealthy Places

Routledge

2000

Flowers, Ronald Barri Women and Criminality: The Woman as Victim, Offender, and Practitioner Greenwood Press 1987

Frey, James H.

Survey Research by Telephone 

Sage Publications

1983

Friedl, John and Noel J. Chrisman

City ways : A Selective Reader in Urban Anthropology

Crowell

1975

Fruchter, Benjamin /

Introduction to Factor Analysis

Van Nostrand

1954

Fuguitt, Glenn V. , David L. Brown and Calvin L. Beale

Rural and Small Town America

Sage Foundation

1989

Fukuyama, Francis Trust:  The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity Free Press 1996

Gastil, Raymond D.

Cultural Regions of the United States

University of Washington Press

1975

Geertz, C. The Interpretation of cultures Basic Books 1973

Gerster, Patrick and Nicholas Cords

Myth and Southern History

Rand McNally

1974

Gilbert, Dennis. The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality, 7th edition Pine Forge Press 2008
Gill, Gerald R. Meanness Mania Howard University Press 1980

Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City

M.I.T. Press

1963

Gomez-Quinones, Juan Chicano Politics: Reality and Promise, 1940-1990 University of New Mexico Press 1990
Haas, Peter J. & J. Fred Springer Applied Policy Research: Concepts and Cases Garland 1998
Hacker, Andrew Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal Ballantine Books 1992

Halle, David

America's Working Man : Work, Home, and Politics Among Blue-Collar Property Owners

University of Chicago Press

1984

Halle, David America's Working Man : Work, Home, and Politics Among Blue-Collar Property Owners University of Chicago Press 1984

Hannerz, Ulf

Soulside: Inquiries Into Ghetto Culture and Community

Almqvist & Wiksell

1969

Harris, C. C.

Readings in Kinship in Urban Society

Pergamon Press

1970

Hays, R. Allen The Federal Government and Urban Housing: Ideology and Change in Public Policy. 2nd ed. State University of New York Press 1995
Heiner, Robert Social Problems: an Introduction to Critical Constructionism, 3rd edition Oxford University Press 2010

Heise, David R.

Causal Analysis

Wiley

1975

Hernandez, Donald J.

America's Children: Resources from Family, Government and the Economy

Russell Sage Foundation

1993

Howell, Joseph T 

Hard Living on Clay Street: A Study of Blue Collar Families

University of North Carolina Press

1972

Jasso, Guillermina and Mark R. Rosenzweig

The New Chosen People: Immigrants in the United States

Russell Sage Foundation

1990

Jones, Laurence F. and Edward C. Olson Researching the Polity: the Scope and Methods of Political Science, 2nd edition Atomic Dog Publishers 2004
Jones, W.P., & Kottler, J.A. Understanding Research: Becoming a Competent and Critical Consumer Merrill/Prentice-Hall 2006

Keiser, R. Lincoln

The Vice Lords: Warriors of the Streets

Holt, Rinehart and Winston

1969

Kennedy, and Leonard Dealing with Neighborhood Change: A Primer on Gentrification and Policy Choices Brookings Institution Press 2001

Kenny, David A.

Correlation & Causality

Wiley

1979

Keyes, Langley Social Capital and Poor Communities Russell Sage Foundation 2001
Kingdon, John W. Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies. 2nd ed. Longman 2003
Krueckeberg, D. A., and Silvers, A.L. Urban Planning Analysis: Methods and Models Wiley 1974
Kvale, Steinar Interviews: An Introduction to Qualitative Research Interviewing Sage Publications 1996
Lasch, Christopher Haven in a heartless World: The Family Besieged Basic Books 1977

Lavin, Michael R.

Understanding the Census: A Guide for Marketers, Planners, Grant Writers and Other Data Users

Epoch Books, Inc.

1996

Lavrakas, Paul J.

Telephone Survey Methods: Sampling, Selection, and Supervision

Sage Publications

1987

Levy, Frank

Dollars and Dreams: The Changing American Income Distribution

Russell Sage Foundation

1987

Lewis, Oscar

Five Families: Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty

Basic Books

1959

Li, Ching Chun

Path Analysis-A Primer

Boxwood Press

1975

Lieberson, Stanley and Mary C. Waters

From Many Strands: Ethnic and Racial Groups in Contemporary America

Russell Sage Foundation

1988

Liebow, Elliot Talley’s Corner Little, Brown 1967

Liebow, Elliot

Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women

Free Press

1993

Long, J. Scott, ed.

Common Problems/Proper Solutions: Avoiding Error in Quantitative Research

Sage Publications

1988

Long, Larry

Migration and Residential Mobility in the United States

Russell Sage Foundation

1988

Maanen, J.V. Tales of the Field University of Chicago Press 1988

Markus, Gregory B.

Analyzing Panel Data

Sage Publications

1979

Massey, Douglas S. and Nancy A. Denton

American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass

Harvard University Press

1993

McCleary, Richard and Richard A. Hay

Applied Time Series Analysis for the Social Sciences

Sage Publications

1980

Medoff, Peter and Sklar, Holly The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood South End Press 1994

Miringoff, Marc and Marque-Luisa Mirongoff

The Social Health of the Nation

Oxford University Press

1999

Morris, Michael and John B. Williamson Poverty and Public Policy: An Analysis of Federal Intervention Efforts Greenwood Press 1986
Moynihan, Daniel P., editor On Understanding Poverty: Perspectives From the Social Sciences Basic Books 1968
Murray, Charles Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 Basic Books 1984
Myrdal, Gunnar An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Volume 1 Harper & Row Publishers 1962

National Research Council

Welfare, the Family, and Reproductive Behavior

National Academy Press

1998

Newman, Katherine S. No Shame in My Game:  The Working Poor in the Inner City Knopf and the Russell Sage Foundation 1999

O'Hare, William P.

The Rise of Poverty in Rural America

Population Reference Bureau

1988

O'Hare, William P.

America's Welfare Population: Who Gets What?

Population Reference Bureau

1987

Oyen, Else, ed.

Comparative Methodology: Theory and Practice in International Social Research

Sage Publications

1990

Patton, Carl V. and David S. Sawicki Basic Methods of Policy Analysis and Planning 2nd edition Prentice Hall 1993
Patton, Michael Quinn Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods, 3rd Edition Sage Publications 2002
Phillips, Rhonda and Robert H. Pittman, editors An Introduction to Community Development Routledge Press 2008

Piore, Michael J.

Birds of Passage: Migrant Labor and Industrial Societies

Cambridge University Press

1979

Powers, Daniel A. and Yu Xie Statistical Methods for Categorical Data Analysis Academic Press 2000
Preston, Samuel H., Patrick Heuveline and Michel Guillot Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes Blackwell Publishers 2001
Putnam, R.D The Prosperous Community , Social Capital and Public Life The American Prospect, #13 Spring, 1993
Putnam, R.D The Strange Disappearance of Civic America The American Prospect, #24 Winter 1995
Putnam, R.D Bowling Alone:  The Collapse and Revival of American Community Simon and Schuster 2000

Queen, Stuart Alfred and Lewis Francis Thomas

The City: A Study of Urbanism in the United States

McGraw-Hill

1939

Rew, Alan

Social Images and Process in Urban New Guinea: A Study of Port Moresby

West Publishing Company

1974

Rosenberg, Morris

The Logic of Survey Analysis

Basic Books

1968

Ryan, William Blaming the Victim Vintage Books 1976
Sabatier, Paul A. and Hank C. Jenkins-Smith Policy Change and Learning: An Advocacy Coalition Approach Westview Press 1993
Sabatier, Paul A. Theories of the Policy Process Westview Press 1999
Sarkissian, Wendy, Nancy Hofer, Yollanna Shole, Stephen Vajda, and Cathy Wilkinson Kitchen Table Sustainability: Practical Recipes for Community Engagement with Sustainability Earthscan 2009
Schlesinger, Arthur Jr. The Disuniting of America W. W. Norton & Company 1992
Schuman, Howard, Charlotte Steeh, and Lawrence Bobo Racial Attitudes in America:  Trends and Interpretations Harvard University Press 1985
Scott, James C. Seeing Like A State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Conditions have Failed Yale University Press 1998
Seabright, Paul.  The Company of Strangers : A Natural History of Economic Life Princeton University Press 2005
Seligman, Adam The problem of trust Princeton University Press 1997

Shibutani, Tamotsu

Ethnic Stratification: A Comparative Approach

Macmillan

1965

Siegel, Jacob S., Henry S. Shyrock, Edward Stockwell, and David Swanson, editors The Methods and Materials of Demography. 2nd revised edition Academic Press 2003

Siegel, Jacob S. and Murray Gendell

Generation of Change: A Profile of America's Older Population

Russell Sage Foundation

1993

Simon, David and Edward Burns The Corner:  a Year in the Life of an Inner City Neighborhood Broadway Books 1997

Slater, Courtenay M. and Martha G. Davis

State Profiles: The Population and Economy of Each State

Bernan

1999

Slim, Hugo and Paul Thomson Listening for a Change: Oral Testimony and Community Development New Society Publishers 1999

Smelser, Neil J.

Comparative Methods in the Social Sciences

Prentice-Hall

1976

Smith, Joan The Paradox of Women's Poverty: Wage-Earning Women and Economic Transformation in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society University of Chicago Press 1984
Smith, Stanley K. , Jeff Tayman, & David A. Swanson State and Local Population Projections: Methodology and Analysis. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers 2001

Snipp, C. Matthew

American Indians: The First of this Land

Russell Sage Foundation

1989

Southall, Aidan

Urban Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies of Urbanization

Oxford University Press

1973

Stewart, Kenneth L. Race and Ethnic Relations in America:  An Introduction Using MicroCase MicroCase Corporation 1997
Stokey, E, and Zeckhauser, R. A Primer for Policy Analysis W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1978
Stone, Deborah Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making W.W. Norton 1997

Suttles, Gerald D.

The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City

University of Chicago Press

1968

Sweet, James A. and Larry L. Bumpass

American Families and Households

Russell Sage Foundation

1987

Takaki, Ronald A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America Little, Brown 1993

Thernstrom, Stephan and Richard Sennett, ed.

Nineteenth-Century Cities: Essays in the New Urban History

Yale University Press

1969

Tocqueville, Alexis de Democracy in America I-II Alfred A. Knopf 1951

Valdivieso, Rafael

U.S. Hispanics: Challenging Issues for the 1990's 

Population Reference Bureau

1988

Vissing, Yvonne M. Out of Sight Out of Mind: Homeless Children and Families in Small Town America University Press of Kentucky 1996

Wachter, Kenneth and Caleb E. Finch, eds.

Between Zeus and the Salmon: The Bio-demography of Longevity

National Academy Press

1997

Walker, and Weinheimer Community Development In The 1990s Urban Institute Press 1998

Warner, William Lloyd 

American Life: Dream and Reality

University of Chicago Press

1962

Webb, Eugene J. et al.

Unobtrusive Measures: Nonreactive Research in the Social Sciences

Rand McNally

1966

Weiner, Neil Alan and Marvin E. Wolfgang, editors Violent Crime, Violent Criminals Sage Publications 1989
Weimer, David L. and Aiden R.Vining Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practice, 4th edition Prentice Hall 2004
Whimster, Sam, editor The Essential Weber:  A Reader Routledge Books 2003

White, Michael J.

American Neighborhoods and Residential Differentiation

Russell Sage Foundation

1987

Wilson, William Julius The Ghetto Underclass Debate University of Chicago Press 1987

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