1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778571703321

Autore

Boyer Paul S

Titolo

Urban masses and moral order in America, 1820-1920 / / Paul Boyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 1992, c1978

ISBN

0-674-26231-X

0-674-02862-7

Edizione

[1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 387 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations

Disciplina

301.36/3/0973

Soggetti

Urbanization - United States - History

United States Moral conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Part One. The Jacksonian Era 1. The Urban Threat Emerges: A Strategy Takes Shape 2. The Tract Societies: Transmitting a Traditional Morality by Untraditional Means 3. The Sunday School in the City: Patterned Order in a Disorderly Setting 4. Urban Moral Reform in the Early Republic: Some Concluding Reflections Part Two. The Mid-Century Decades: Years of Frustration and Innovation 5. Heightened Concern, Varied Responses 6. Narrowing the Problem: Slum Dwellers and Street Urchins 7. Young Men and the City: The Emergence of the YMCA Part Three. The Gilded Age: Urban Moral Control in a Turbulent Time 8. "The Ragged Edge of Anarchy": The Emotional Context of Urban Social Control in the Gilded Age 9. American Protestantism and the Moral Challenge of the Industrial City 10. Building Character among the Urban Poor: The Charity Organization Movement 11. The Urban Moral Awakening of the 1890's 12. The Two Faces of Urban Moral Reform in the 1890's Part Four. The Progressives and the City: Common Concerns, Divergent Strategies 13. Battling the Saloon and the Brothel: The Great Coercive Crusades 14. One Last, Decisive Struggle: The Symbolic Component of the Great Coercive Crusades 15. Positive Environmentalism: The Ideological Underpinnings 16. Housing, Parks, and Playgrounds: Positive Environmentalism in Action 17. The Civic Ideal and the Urban Moral Order 18. The Civic Ideal Made Real: The Moral Vision of the Progressive City Planners 19. Positive



Environmentalism and the Urban Moral-Control Tradition: Contrasts and Continuities 20. Getting Right with Gesellschaft: The Decay of the Urban Moral-Control Impulse in the 1920's and After Notes Index

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911019111703321

Autore

Sani Fabio <1961->

Titolo

Experimental design and statistics for psychology : a first course / / Fabio Sani and John Todman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006

ISBN

9786610237739

9781280237737

1280237732

9780470776124

0470776129

9781405150385

1405150386

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TodmanJohn B

Disciplina

150/.72/4

Soggetti

Psychometrics

Experimental design

Psychology - Research - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Scientific psychology and the research process -- The nature of psychology experiments (I): variables and conditions -- The nature of psychology experiments (II): validity -- Describing data -- Making inferences from data -- Selecting a statistical test -- Tests of significance for nominal data -- Tests of significance for ordinal data (and interval/ratio data when parametric assumptions are not met) -- Tests of significance for interval data -- Correlational studies.

Sommario/riassunto

Experimental Design and Statistics for Psychology: A First Course is a concise, straighforward and accessible introduction to the design of psychology experiments and the statistical tests used to make sense of their results.Makes abundant use of charts, diagrams and figures.



Assumes no prior knowledge of statistics. Invaluable to all psychology students needing a firm grasp of the basics, but tackling of some of the topic's more complex, controversial issues will also fire the imagination of more ambitious students. Covers different aspects of ex