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How to Study Social Life
About this book
Do you want to study what people do, the things they say, or what they think?
This book offers a lively and questioning account of the essential elements of social research, from defining your research purpose to producing the right output for your audience.Fostering inquisitiveness and ingenuity and drawing on lots of examples and experiences, it will inspire you to think afresh about the various things you might do as a social researcher.
It will also:
- Reveal the lived realities of research, sharing honest and illuminating stories along the way;
- Draw on plenty of past exercises with students to consider how different activities work
- Demystify the process so you can think for yourself about how to do effective projects.
Original, engaging and candid, this book will help any undergraduate or postgraduate navigate the dynamic and challenging landscape of social research with confidence and creativity.
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Yes, you can access How to Study Social Life by Russell Hitchings,Alan Latham in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Social Science Research & Methodology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About The Authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: What is the Point of This Book and How to Use it
- 2 Warrants: Starting With What You Want Your Study to Achieve
- 3 Observing: On Learning to Learn from Different Social Scenes
- 4 Taking Part: Considering the Benefits of Getting Involved Ourselves
- 5 Staging Talk: How To Do and Imagine Interviews
- 6 Engaging People: Seeing Social Research as a Relationship
- 7 Asking Questions: Exploring a Basic Act that Features in Many Methods
- 8 Playing with Words: Strategies for Seeing and Exploring Patterns
- 9 Looking at Pictures: Ways of Getting Drawn Into Social Worlds
- 10 Choosing: How Thinking About Cases and Samples Can Make for Innovative Projects
- 11 Writing: How to Present the Material we've Collected
- Coda: The People Who Inspired Us and Ideas for Further Reading
- References
- Afterword
- Index