Chapter 1:		How Do We Know What's True?
		Activity 1.1 Knowledge and Attitudes Activity 1.2 Empirically Based Scientific Knowledge
Chapter 2:		Using the Scientific Method and Political Science
		Activity 2.1 Identifying Distortions in News Reports and Commentaries Activity 2.2 Description and Explanation Activity 2.3 Deductive and Inductive Inference
Chapter 3:		Formulating Problems and Hypotheses
		Activity 3.1 Identifying Examples of Ethics Violations in Social and Political Research Activity 3.2 Converting a General Topic to Hypotheses Activity 3.3 Identifying Hypotheses Activity 3.4 Reformulating Value Statements Activity 3.5 Reformulating Hypotheses Activity 3.6 Identifying Components in Hypotheses
Chapter 4:		Building a Bibliography: Determining What is Known
		Activity 4.1 Using Search Engines Activity 4.2 Comparing Resources Revealed by Academic and Nonacademic Databases Activity 4.3 Building a Bibliography
Chapter 5:		Reviewing Previous Research
		Activity 5.1 Writing a Summary of an Article that Reports Empirical Political Research Activity 5.2 Identifying Parts of an Article Published in a Social Science Journal Activity 5.3 Writing a Comparative Literature Review
Chapter 6:		Assessing Relationships: Association or Causality?
		Activity 6.1 Hypotheses, Variables and Causality Activity 6.2 Causal Chains
Chapter 7:		Conceptualizing, Operationalizing, and Measuring Variables
		Activity 7.1 Inferring Concepts from Measurements Activity 7.2 Identifying Levels of Measurement Activity 7.3 Operationalizing Concepts and Hypotheses
Chapter 8:		Organizing and Managing Data
		Activity 8.1 Running a Frequency Distribution in SPSS Activity 8.2 More Frequency Distributions Using SPSS
Chapter 9:		How to Achieve Maximum Representativeness: Sampling
		Activity 9.1 Evaluating Samples Reported in Articles in Professional Journals Activity 9.2 Evaluating Samples Reported Along with Poll Results by the Popular Press Activity 9.3 Using SPSS to Select a Random Sample Activity 9.4 Selecting Student Samples
Chapter 10:		Collecting Data Using Surveys
		Activity 10.1 Constructing a Questionnaire Activity 10.2 Accessing Data for Secondary Analysis
Chapter 11:		Collecting and Organizing Data from Published Sources
		Activity 11.1 Location of Data from Published Sources Activity 11.2 Preparing to Collect and Analyze Data Activity 11.3 A Content Analysis
Chapter 12:		Studying only a Few Cases: Intensive Approaches
		Activity 12.1 Designing a Classic Experiment Activity 12.2 Designing an Experiment for Evaluation Activity 12.3 Designing an Experiment for a Hypothetical Situation Activity 12.4 Points of View Emerging from a Q-Sort
Chapter 13:		How to Describe and Summarize a Single Variable
		Activity 13.1 Calculating the Mean and Standard Deviation Activity 13.2 Using SPSS for Describing Frequency Distributions
Chapter 14:		Constructing and Interpreting Bivariate Tables
		Activity 14.1 Understanding the Information in a Table Activity 14.2 Percentage Tables and Hypotheses Activity 14.3 Creating a Bivariate Percentage Table with Nominal Level Variables, Using SPSS Activity 14.4 Creating a Bivariate Percentage Table with Ordinal Level Variables, Using SPSS
Chapter 15:		Graphing and Describing Linear Bivariate Relationships
		Activity 15.1 Drawing a Regression Line in SPSS Activity 15.2 Calculating a Regression Coefficient, Beta Weight, and Correlation Coefficient in SPSS
Chapter 16:		Analyzing More Than Two Variables
		Activity 16.1 Reading a Multivariate Percentage Table Activity 16.2 Constructing a Condensed Table Activity 16.3 Creating and Editing a Multivariate Percentage Table Using SPSS Activity 16.4 Multiple Regression Using SPSS
Chapter 17:		Determining the Statistical Significance of Results
		Activity 17.1 Computing and Interpreting A Chi Square Activity 17.2 Computing Chi Square Using SPSS Activity 17.3 Using SPSS to Compare Two Means with a T-test Activity 17.4 Using SPSS to Compare Three Means with an F-test (ANOVA).
Chapter 18:		Reporting the Results of Empirical Political Research: Pulling It All Together
		Activity 18.1 Media Reports of Social Research Activity 18.2 Writing Abstracts of Research Reports Activity 18.3 Creating A Simple Bar Chart Using SPSS Activity 18.4 Creating A Simple Pie Chart Using SPSS Activity 18.5 Editing Tables in SPSS and Exporting Them to Word Processing Documents