Thinking Through Methods

A Social Science Primer

By: John Levi Martin

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Hardcover | 8 February 2017 | Edition Number 1

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Sociological research is hard enough alreadyâ"you donât need to make it even harder by smashing about like a bull in a china shop, not knowing what youâre doing or where youâre heading. Or so says John Levi Martin in this witty, insightful, and desperately needed primer on how to practice rigorous social science. Thinking Through Methods focuses on the practical decisions that you will need to make as a researcherâ"where the data you are working with comes from and how that data relates to all the possible data you could have gathered.
This is a userâs guide to sociological research, designed to be used at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Rather than offer mechanical rules and applications, Martin chooses instead to team up with the reader to think through and with methods. He acknowledges that we are human beingsâ"and thus prone to the same cognitive limitations and distortions found in subjectsâ"and proposes ways to compensate for these limitations. Martin also forcefully argues for principled symmetry, contending that bad ethics makes for bad research, and vice versa. Thinking Through Methods is a landmark workâ"one that students will turn to again and again throughout the course of their sociological research.

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"Thinking Through Methods offers an incisive introduction to social research methods. Methods textbooks are too often a bit stodgy. This book is anything but dull. It's irreverent and entertaining, full of examples of good and bad research. Novice and experienced researchers alike will come away with strategies to avoid common mistakes. I look forward to assigning it in both undergraduate and graduate methods courses."-- "Elizabeth Armstrong, University of Michigan"
"Martin is always original. Thinking Through Methods combines a hard-nosed commitment to scholarly ideals with an endless array of provocative and clever things to say. This is a very creative work on sociological methods and there is enormous wisdom to be found in it."-- "Jeremy Freese, Stanford University"

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