by Bruce Parrott
University of Michigan Press, 2023
Cloth: 978-0-472-07598-0 | Paper: 978-0-472-05598-2 | eISBN: 978-0-472-22108-0
Library of Congress Classification H62.5.N6P38 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 300.72

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Becoming a Social Science Researcher is designed to help aspiring social scientists, including credentialed scholars, understand the formidable complexities of the research process. Instead of explaining specific research techniques, it concentrates on the philosophical, sociological, and psychological dimensions of social research. These dimensions have received little coverage in guides written for social science researchers, but they are arguably even more important than particular analytical techniques. Truly sophisticated social science scholarship requires that researchers understand the intellectual and social contexts in which they collect and interpret information. While social science training in US graduate schools has become more systematic over the past two decades, graduate training and published guidance still fall short in addressing this fundamental need.



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