Sociologists Backstage: Answers to 10 Questions About What They Do

by Nikki Jones and Sarah Fenstermaker

Book Overview

Published social science rarely gives real attention to the actual doing of research, making the process appear magical, or at least self-evident and simple. This book is intended to right the balance by illuminating the craft and the choices made as the research process unfolds for the sociologist. The metaphorical image of going "backstage" speaks to the reader's experience with each of the seventeen interviews, which illuminate the choices and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415870933
• ISBN13: 9780415870931
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"