Thinking Through Methods Martin John Levi
Thinking Through Methods Martin John Levi 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…
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Thinking Through Methods Martin John Levi
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. 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. Or so says John Levi Martin in this witty, insightful, and desperately needed primer on how to practice rigorous social science.
He acknowledges that we are human beings--and thus prone to the same cognitive Rather than offer mechanical rules and applications, Martin chooses instead to team up with the reader to think through and with methods.