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.
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"This well-written book has much to recommend it. It would be interesting, useful, supplementary reading for doctoral students, and other relatively inexperienced researchers." (Ronald R. Powell )
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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.
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.
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New York, Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, Thousand Oaks, University of Chicago Press, Social Research, Princeton University Press, Newbury Park, Central America, Dominican Republic, Oxford University Press, United States, Victor Turner Prize, American Anthropological Association, Indiana University Press, Cornell University Press, Harvard University Press, World Bank, Walnut Creek, Chapel Hill, Stanford University Press, University of North Carolina, Academic Press, Free Press, World Politics New!
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- Fieldwork in Developing Countries by Stephen Devereux on 4 pages
- Beyond Regulations: Ethics in Human Subjects Research (Studies in Social Medicine) by Nancy M. P. King on page 226, page 227, and page 228
- Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski on page 84, page 164, and page 234
- The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies by Charles C. Ragin on page 37, page 158, and page 235
- Making It Count: The Improvement of Social Research and Theory by Stanley Lieberson on page 40, page 158, and page 234
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