Designing and Conducting Your First Interview Projet helps teach students in a clear, easily followed step by step approach, how to conduct the most essential part of social research data collection: the interview, along with how to organize, analyze, and interpret their data. ? How does one draw students into the excitement of testing one's own assumptions about the way the social world is ordered?? The research methods chapter of most introduction to sociology texts is often described by students as the most ?boring? chapter when it should be the most stimulating.? Social science research methods offer a new way of gathering information about the world.? Students need to understand the scientific method; appreciate its strengths, be aware of potential weaknesses, and contrast it to other ways of knowing.? Thus, there is a need for an experiential learning opportunity as facilitated through this workbook.? ? The purpose of the workbook is to provide a step-by-step template for a collaborative class experience in deductive social science.? This includes hypothesis development, interview data collection, data entry using SPSS, and elementary data analysis.? By selecting the hypothesis, gathering the data and analyzing the results, students gain an appreciation for the strengths and potential weaknesses of ?knowing? things through doing quantitative social science. ? The workbook makes use of active-learning strategies.? Chapter summaries will be included, along with bulleted step-by-step instructions.? Tear-out optional lab assignment sheets will also included.