Salsa dancing into the social sciences : research in an age of info-glut /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Luker, Kristin
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Salsa dancing? In the social sciences?
  • What's it all about?
  • An ode to canonical social science
  • What is this a case of, anyway?
  • Reviewing the literature
  • On sampling, operationalization, and generalization
  • Getting down to the nitty-gritty
  • Field (and other) methods
  • Historical-comparative methods
  • Data reduction and analysis
  • Living your life as a salsa-dancing social scientist.