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Evidence (Paperback)
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Howard S. Becker is a master of his discipline. His reputation as a
teacher as well as a sociologist, is supported by his best-selling
quartet of sociological guidebooks: Writing for Social Scientists,
Tricks of the Trade, Telling About Society, and What About Mozart?
What About Murder?. It turns out that the master sociologist has
yet one more trick up his sleeve a fifth guidebook, Evidence.
Becker has for seventy years been mulling over the problem of
evidence. He argues that social scientists don't take questions
about the usefulness of their data as evidence for their ideas
seriously enough. For example, researchers have long used the
occupation of a person's father as evidence of the family's social
class, but studies have shown this to be a flawed measure for one
thing, a lot of people answer that question too vaguely to make the
reasoning plausible. The book is filled with examples like this,
and Becker uses them to expose a series of errors, suggesting ways
to avoid them, or even to turn them into research topics in their
own right. He argues strongly that because no data-gathering method
produces totally reliable information, a big part of the research
job consists of getting rid of error. Readers will find Becker's
newest guidebook a valuable tool, useful for social scientists of
every variety.
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