Craft of Inquiry Theories, Methods, Evidence

Name: Craft of Inquiry Theories, Methods, Evidence
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ISBN: 9780195119039

ISBN-10: 0195119037

ISBN-13: 9780195119039

Edition: 1998

Authors: Robert R. Alford

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The Craft of Inquiry shows how research emerges from and interacts with theory, helping undergraduate students formulate, reformulate, and pursue their own theoretically-informed research. The author also provides a vocabulary to guide novice researchers through the maze of process. He author suggests that there are three basic explanatory approaches to sociology - multi-variate, interpretive and historical - all of which, on their own, are open to criticism for incompleteness. To fill this gap, he proposes a tripartite model which examines each approach through the lens of the other two, and analyses how these approaches work with and relate to one another.

Book details

List price: $94.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/5/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Introduction



The Craft of Inquiry



Designing a Research Project



The Construction of Arguments



Foreground Multivariate Arguments



Foreground Interpretive Arguments



Foreground Historical Arguments



The Theoretical Power of Multiple Paradigma



Dialectical Explanations and the Sociological Imagination


Notes


Selected Readings


Index