Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Re, Becker^+

The University of Chicago Press

Tricks of the TradeHow to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It\nAuthor(s): Howard S. Becker\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226041247, 978-0226041247\nSynopsis\nDesigned 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 \""How?\"" (as a way of getting people to talk without asking for a justification) to more technical tricks such as how to manipulate truth tables. Drawing from a variety of fields such as art history, anthropology, sociolo.