Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It Becker Howard S.Paperback
Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It Becker Howard S.Paperback Drawing on more than four decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker now…
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Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It Becker Howard S.Paperback
Drawing on more than four decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker now brings to students and researchers the many valuable techniques he has learned. Assisted by Becker's sage advice, students can make better sense of their research and simultaneously generate fresh ideas on where to look next for new data. Tricks of the Trade will help students learn how to think about research projects.
Becker's 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 The tricks 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.