Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences Research in an Age of Info-Glut

Name: Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences Research in an Age of Info-Glut
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ISBN: 9780674048218

ISBN-10: 0674048210

ISBN-13: 9780674048218

Edition: 2008

Authors: Kristin Luker

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Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/10/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.59" wide x 8.35" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.880

Kristin Luker is a professor of sociology at the University of California-Berkeley and a professor at Boalt Law School. She is the author of the landmark book Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood and lives in Berkeley, California.




Salsa Dancing? In the Social Sciences?



What's It All About?



An Ode to Canonical Social Science



What Is This a Case of, Anyway?



Reviewing the Literature



On Sampling, Operationalization, and Generalization



Getting Down to the Nitty-Gritty



Field (and Other) Methods



Historical-Comparative Methods



Data Reduction and Analysis



Living Your Life as a Salsa-Dancing Social Scientist



What to Do If You Don't Have a Case



Tools of the Trade



Special Resources for Specific Methods



Sample Search Log


Notes


Bibliography


Author's Note


Acknowledgments


Index