Salsa dancing into the social sciences
Subtitle: research in an age of info-glut
By: Kristin Luker.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780674031579
Subjects: Social sciences -- Research; Social sciences -- Methodology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Salsa dancing? In the social sciences?; title: What's it all about?; title: An ode to canonical social science; title: What is this a case of, anyway?; title: Reviewing the literature; title: On sampling, operationalization, and generalization; title: Getting down to the nitty-gritty; title: Field (and other) methods; title: Historical-comparative methods; title: Data reduction and analysis; title: Living your life as a salsa-dancing social scientist.