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2017
The Art and Science of Social Research
Waters, Mary C., Elizabeth Heger Boyle, Deborah Carr, Benjamin Cornwell, Shelley Correll, Robert Crosnoe, and Jeremy Freese. 2017. The Art and Science of Social Research. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Publisher's Version Abstract
Written by a team of internationally renowned sociologists with experience in both the field and the classroom, The Art and Science of Social Research offers authoritative and balanced coverage of the full range of methods used to study the social world. The authors highlight the challenges of investigating the unpredictable topic of human lives while providing insights into what really happens in the field, the laboratory, and the survey call center.
2002
Levitt, Peggy, and Mary Waters. 2002. The Changing Face of Home: Transnational Lives of the Second Generation. Russell Sage Foundation. Publisher's Version Abstract

The Changing Face of Home is the first book to examine the extent to which the children of immigrants engage in the transnational practices observed in their parents. It presents an important first round of research and dialogue on the activities and identities of the second generation vis-á-vis their ancestral homelands, and raises important questions for future research.

Part I of the volume explores how the practice and consequences of transnational involvements vary by gender, country-of-origin, and life cycle stage. In Part II, the contributors comment on these findings, offering suggestions for reconceptualizing the issue and bridging analytical differences. The final set of chapters examines how home- and host-country value systems shape how second generation immigrants construct their identities and the economic, social, and political communities to which they ultimately express allegiance.