Pulling Back the Curtain on Qualitative Research

ISBN-13: 9781032341545 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 216 str.

USA) Thompson Mica (Texas A&M University Commerce

Opis

For sociologists, the world is a laboratory, and key research principles and methods inform much of their actions, observations, and worldview. This book provides a practical and personal guide to the essential elements of social research and offers engaging insight through the authors' past fieldwork.　　

O autorze

William E. Thompson is a professor emeritus of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA. He　was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and was the first member of his family to receive a high school diploma. He received his bachelor’s degree from Northeastern State University, a master’s degree from Missouri State University, and a Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University. Professor Thompson has authored and co-authored more than 50 articles in professional journals, including several reprinted in sociology textbooks and readers. Thompson also is the author of The Glass House, a nonfiction account of his mother’s two-year battle with cancer and in 2012 authored Hogs, Blogs, Leathers, and Lattes: The Sociology of Modern American Motorcycling.

Mica L. Thompson is an adjunct instructor at Texas A&M University Commerce, USA. She was born in Emporia, Kansas, and received her bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State University and her master’s degree from Texas A&M University-Commerce. She has 16 years of public-school teaching experience and has co-authored several articles in professional journals as well as several major textbooks in sociology.

Together, Thompson and Thompson have co-authored three major social scientific books: Sociological Wisdom, Society in Focus: An Introduction to Sociology which is in its 9^th edition, and Juvenile Delinquency: A Sociological Approach, now in its 11^th edition.