num_pages: 330
description: This major new textbook on methodology in social and political science focuses centrally on the debate between positivist and constructivist approaches. It introduces in a lively and accessible way a range of key issues--from the nature of knowledge to the strengths and weaknesses of the main research methods--showing how methodological pluralism can be combined with intellectual rigor.
language: English
title: Ways of Knowing: Competing Methodologies in Social and Political Research
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan