Howard S. Becker: Tricks of the Trade

Cover: 9780226041247 | Tricks of the Trade | Howard S. Becker | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 1998

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A classic guidebook from a master teacher and landmark researcher Drawing on decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker brings to students and researchers the many valuable techniques for conducting research that he learned and taught. 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. Becker has extracted these tricks from a variety of fields such as art history, anthropology, sociology, literature, and philosophy; and his dazzling variety of references ranges from James Agee to Ludwig Wittgenstein. Becker finds the common principles that lie behind good social science work, principles that apply to both quantitative and qualitative research. He offers practical advice, ideas students can apply to their data with the confidence that they will return with something they hadn't thought of before.

Über den Autor

Howard S. Becker (1928-2023) made major contributions to the sociology of deviance, sociology of art, and sociology of music. He received a PhD from the University of Chicago, where he was also an instructor in sociology and social sciences. He was professor of sociology at Northwestern University for twenty-five years and later became a professor of sociology and an adjunct professor of music at the University of Washington. He lived and worked in San Francisco and Paris.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	1998
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780226041247
ISBN-10:	0226041247
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Becker, Howard S.
Hersteller:	The University of Chicago Press Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 142 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Howard S. Becker
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.01.1998
Gewicht:	0,335 kg