Sociological research is hard enough already you don't need to make
it even harder by smashing about like a bull in a china shop, not
knowing what you're doing or where you're heading. Or so says John
Levi Martin in this witty, insightful, and desperately needed
primer on how to practice rigorous social science. Thinking Through
Methods focuses on the practical decisions that you will need to
make as a researcher where the data you are working with comes from
and how that data relates to all the possible data you could have
gathered. This is a user's guide to sociological research, designed
to be used at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Rather
than offer mechanical rules and applications, Martin chooses
instead to team up with the reader to think through and with
methods. He acknowledges that we are human beings and thus prone to
the same cognitive limitations and distortions found in subjects
and proposes ways to compensate for these limitations. Martin also
forcefully argues for principled symmetry, contending that bad
ethics makes for bad research, and vice versa. Thinking Through
Methods is a landmark work one that students will turn to again and
again throughout the course of their sociological research.
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