Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing and Publishing)
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Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing and Publishing)
Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing and Publishing)

Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing and Publishing)

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Howard S. Becker (Author)  

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Designed to help students learn how to think about research projects, this guide offers suggestions which cover four broad areas of social science: the creation of the "imagery" to guide research; methods of "sampling" to generate maximum variety in the data; the development of "concepts" to organize findings; and the use of "logical" methods to explore systematically the implications of what is found. The advice ranges from simple tricks such as changing an interview question from "Why?" to "How?" (as a way of getting people to talk without asking for a justification) to more technical tricks such as how to manipulate truth tables. Drawing from a variety of fields such as art history, anthropology, sociology, literature and philosophy, the author ranges from James Agee to Ludwig Wittgenstein, to find the common principles which lie behind good social science work, principles that apply to both quantitative and qualitative research.
Howard S. Becker has made major contributions to the sociology of deviance, sociology of art, and sociology of music. He received a PhD from the University of Chicago, where he was also an instructor in sociology and social sciences. He was professor of sociology at Northwestern University for twenty-five years and later became a professor of sociology and an adjunct professor of music at the University of Washington. He lives and works in San Francisco and Paris.
  • Contributor: Howard S. Becker
  • Imprint: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN13: 9780226041247
  • Number of Pages: 239
  • Packaged Dimensions: 14x22x1mm
  • Packaged Weight: 425
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Release Date: 1998-01-21
  • Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing and Publishing
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Howard S. Becker has made major contributions to the sociology of deviance, sociology of art, and sociology of music. He received a PhD from the University of Chicago, where he was also an instructor in sociology and social sciences. He was professor of sociology at Northwestern University for twenty-five years and later became a professor of sociology and an adjunct professor of music at the University of Washington. He lives and works in San Francisco and Paris.

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