Summary
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A Handbook for Social Science Field Research provides both novice and experienced researcher with valuable insights into a key list of critical texts pertaining to a wide array of social science methods useful when doing fieldwork. Through essays on everything from 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.
Essentials for the Conduct of Research
In Part II of this volume, we offer five essays that reach across methods and pertain to the essential aspects of starting and conducting a field-based research project. Stevan Harrell and Andrew Schrank provide snapshots of two methodological techniques discussed at greater length earlier in the volume that are essential aspects of social science fieldwork: ethnography and case studies. By choosing to do fieldwork, social scientists across the disciplines necessarily assume the mantle of these two approaches: They choose to speak with an ethnographic voice and argue for their particular case. In doing so, they create the texts bridging disciplines and deepening our understandings of places, people, and methods. Social scientists returning from, or departing for, the field will ...
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