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The Research Act:A Theoretical Introduction to Sociological Methods

✍ Scribed by Norman K. Denzin

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Leaves
383
Category
Library
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✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Dedication
Acknowledgments
PART I THE INTERACTIONIST PERSPECTIVE AND THE PROCESS OF THEORY CONSTRUCTION
1. A Point of View
2. The Substance of Sociological Theory
3. Difficulties of Theory Construction
PART II THEORY TO METHOD: SAMPLING AND MEASUREMENT PROBLEMS
4. Problems of Sampling: The Merger of Theory and Method
5. Problems of Measurement and Instrumentation
6. The Sociological Interview
PART III THEORY TO METHOD: RESEARCH STRATEGIES
7. The Experiment and its Variations
8. The Social Survey and its Variations
9. Participant Observation: Varieties and Strategies of the Field Method
10. The Life History Method
11. Unobtrusive Measures: The Quest for Triangulated and Nonreactive Methods of Observation
PART IV STRATEGIES OF TRIANGULATION AND THE ART OF DOING SOCIOLOGY
12. Strategies of Multiple Triangulation
13. On Ethics and the Politics of Doing Sociology
References
Index

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