Tricks of the trade: (Record no. 5558)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9780226041247
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 300.72BEC
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Becker, Howard Saul.
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Tricks of the trade:
Sub Title how to think about your research while you're doing it
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Chicago
Name of publisher University of Chicago Press
Year of publication 1998
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xi, 232 p. ; 22 cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-228) and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Drawing on more than four decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker now brings to students and researchers the many valuable techniques he has learned. Tricks of the Trade will help students learn how to think about research projects. Assisted by Becker's sage advice, students can make better sense of their research and simultaneously generate fresh ideas on where to look next for new data. The tricks cover four broad areas of social science: the creation of the "imagery" to guide research; methods of "sampling" to generate maximum variety in the data; the development of "concepts" to organize findings; and the use of "logical" methods to explore systematically the implications of what is found. Becker's advice ranges from simple tricks such as changing an interview question from "Why?" to "How?" (as a way of getting people to talk without asking for a justification) to more technical tricks such as how to manipulate truth tables.
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Topical Term Social sciences--Authorship.
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