The Craft of Inquiry: Theories, Methods, Evidence

by Robert R. Alford

Book Overview

Sociology is a challenging discipline, ripe with exciting possibilities. It offers sociologists the chance to choose multiple theoretical and methodological traditions that offer a full range of important questions and ways to answer them. A long standing complaint of many sociology professors, however, is that their students seem to have difficulty moving from problem formation to a theoretical approach and then onto an appropriate research design.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195119037
• ISBN13: 9780195119039
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"