A Handbook for Social Science Field Research: Essays & Bibliographic Sources on Research Design and Methods

Curran, Sara R. (Ed)

ISBN 10: 141291681X / ISBN 13: 9781412916813

Editore: Sage Publications, Inc, 2006

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• Titolo: A Handbook for Social Science Field Research: Essays & Bibliographic Sources on Research Design and Methods
• Editore: Sage Publications, Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 141291681X
• ISBN 13: 9781412916813
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Good
• Peso: 500 grammi
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Social Sciences

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Riassunto

A Handbook for Social Science Field Research: Essays & Bibliographic Sources on Research Design and Methods provides both novice and experienced scholars with valuable insights to a select list of critical texts pertaining to a wide array of social science methods useful when doing fieldwork. Through essays on ethnography to case study, archival research, oral history, surveys, secondary data analysis, and ethics, this refreshing new collection offers "tales from the field" by renowned scholars across various disciplines.

Informazioni sugli autori

Ellen Perecman is Executive Director of the Council for Canadian-American Relations in New York City and President of Perecman & Samuels Consulting in New York. She has published numerous articles and book chapters as well as several edited volumes in the field of neurolinguistics and behavioral neurology. With her father, she is currently writing his memoir, tentatively titled One by One: Memoirs of a Dachau Watchmaker. A professional actress, Perecman trained with Julie Bovasso and Vivian Matalon and has appeared on the New York stage most recently in staged readings of classic Yiddish plays. Perecman received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Graduate Center CUNY in 1980.

Sara Curran is Associate Professor of International Studies and Public Affairs at the University of Washington. Her interests include family demography, development, and population and environment. Curran is completing a book for Princeton University Press titled Shifting Boundaries, Transforming Lives: Globalization, Gender and Family Dynamics in Thailand.  And has published in Ambio, Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Sociology, Demography, International Migration Review, Journal of International Women′s Studies, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Population and Development Review, Rural Sociology, Social Science Research and Teaching Sociology. Curran was the recipient of the 2001 Sociologists for Women in Society Mentoring Award and the 2002 Graduate Mentoring Award for Princeton University.