Thinking through methods : a social science primer / John Levi Martin.

By:

Martin, John Levi, 1964- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

022643169X
9780226431697
022643172X
9780226431727

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

301.072 23

LOC classification:

HM511 .M357 2017

Contents:

Preface -- 1. Sharpen your tools -- 2. How to formulate a question -- 3. How do you choose a site? -- 4. Talking to people -- 5. Hanging out -- 6. Ethics in research -- 7. Comparing -- 8. Dealing with documents -- 9. Interpreting it and writing it up -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

Summary: "Sociological research is hard enough already—you don’t need to make it even harder by smashing about like a bull in a china shop, not knowing what you’re doing or where you’re heading. Or so says John Levi Martin in this witty, insightful, and desperately needed primer on how to practice rigorous social science. Thinking Through Methods focuses on the practical decisions that you will need to make as a researcher—where the data you are working with comes from and how that data relates to all the possible data you could have gathered. This is a user’s guide to sociological research, designed to be used at both the undergraduate and graduate level." --Publisher's website.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Sociological research is hard enough already—you don’t need to make it even harder by smashing about like a bull in a china shop, not knowing what you’re doing or where you’re heading. Or so says John Levi Martin in this witty, insightful, and desperately needed primer on how to practice rigorous social science. Thinking Through Methods focuses on the practical decisions that you will need to make as a researcher—where the data you are working with comes from and how that data relates to all the possible data you could have gathered. This is a user’s guide to sociological research, designed to be used at both the undergraduate and graduate level." --Publisher's website.

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