Geographic Information Systems for the Social Sciences: Investigating Space and Place is the first book to take a cutting-edge approach to integrating spatial concepts into the social sciences. In this text, authors Steven J. Steinberg and Sheila L. Steinberg simplify GIS (Geographic Information Systems) for practitioners and students in the social sciences through the use of examples and actual program exercises so that they can become comfortable incorporating this research tool into their repertoire and scope of interest. The authors provide learning objectives for each chapter, chapter...

Geographic Information Systems for the Social Sciences takes a cutting-edge approach to integrating spatial concepts into the social sciences. It is written for both the practitioner and the academic. Specifically, it focuses upon the incorporation of a technology called GIS, (Geographic Information Systems) with social science analysis. GIS allows the user to broaden the scope of comparisons, contrasts, and most importantly, the inclusion of space and place into the study of social issues. The integration of spatial concepts into social science research is not new; however the use of GIS...