Pathways to Data: Craft and Methods for Studying Social Organizations

ISBN-13: 9781138529588 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 288 str.

Robert W. Habenstein

Opis

States that there is a need for students to communicate the procedures and strategies of field research they have found consequential in their own studies to the less instructed or less experienced. This book describes pathways to data that wind in a common direction, toward a concern with research happenings in various situations.

Spis treści

Introduction The Ways of Pathways; One: Cooking Welfare Stew; Two: Practitioners of Vice and Crime; Three: Studying Family and Kinship; Four: Studying a College; Five: Occupational Uptake: Professionalizing; Six: Strategies for the Sociological Study of Criminal Correctional Systems; Seven: Suggestions for a Study of Your Hometown; Eight: Sociological Research in Big Business; Nine: Field Research in Military Organization; Ten: Studying the Hospital; Eleven: Studying Legislators; Twelve: The Study of Southern Labor Union Organizing Campaigns; Thirteen: Problems in the Ethnography of the Urban Underclasses

O autorze

Robert W. Habenstein