Methods of Discovery: Heuristics for the Social Sciences

ISBN-13: 9780393978148 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 261 str.

Andrew Delano Abbott

Opis

Abbott organizes his book around general methodological moves, and uses examples from throughout the social sciences to show how these moves can open new lines of thinking. In each chapter, he covers several moves and their reverses (if these exist), discussing particular examples of the move as well as its logical and theoretical structure. Often he goes on to propose applications of the move in a wide variety of empirical settings. The basic aim of Methods of Discovery is to offer readers a new way of thinking about directions for their research and new ways to imagine information relevant to their research problems Methods of Discovery is part of the Contemporary Societies series.