Tricks of the Trade How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It

Name: Tricks of the Trade How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It
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ISBN: 9780226041247

ISBN-10: 0226041247

ISBN-13: 9780226041247

Edition: 1998

Authors: Howard S. Becker

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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. Tricks of the Trade will help students learn how to think about research projects. 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. 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…

Book details

List price: $14.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/19/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 239
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.87" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Preface



Tricks



Imagery



Sampling



Concepts



Logic Coda


References


Index