The Research ACT: A Theoretical Introduction to Sociological Methods

ISBN-13: 9780202362489 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 382 str.

Norman Denzin

Opis

At once a unique textbook for methods courses and a major contribution to sociological theory, this book teaches students the principles of research and how to construct and test theories. It brings coherence to the study of methods by presenting four major approaches to experimentation: survey research, participant observation, life histories, and unobtrusive measures from a single theoretical point of view, symbolic interaction. It demonstrates the need for a synthesis between theory and methods, and shows how diff erent methods limit and aff ect research result

Spis treści

Preface, 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

O autorze

Norman K. Denzin