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Tricks of the Trade

Paperback • 1998 • English

Tricks of the Trade

By Howard S. Becker

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About the book

Designed to help students learn how to think about research projects, this guide offers suggestions which 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. The advice ranges from simple tricks such as changing an interview question from "Why?" to "Ho...Show more

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ISBN

9780226041247

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published year

1998

Language

English

Original title

Tricks of the Trade

Format

Paperback

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