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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.
Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Tools: Qualitative Research: Does It Fit in Economics?
Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Tools: Qualitative Research: Does It Fit in Economics?
This chapter focuses on qualitative research, particularly in economics. It is largely a reflection on my own work. Thomas Kuhn argues that science has to be understood first as social practice and only afterwards as an intellectual endeavor. A scientific discipline is a social community, and people enter it through a process of initiation and imitation (Kuhn 1970). What we learn in the university is not scientific theory and certainly not a theory of how to do science. We are exposed to practices: the practices of our teachers in the classroom and laboratory and the practices they admire, which we read about in the articles they assign us. The theory of how ...
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