Author: Habenstein, Robert W. Brand New in original shrink-wrap.
Aldine Transaction: 2008
Synopsis: The selections included in Pathways to Data are neither biographies of research projects nor subjective evaluations of personal experiences. Rather, the writers emphasize techniques, operations, and know-how. Pathways to Data's chapters are collateral cousins to the collection of research biographies found in Sociologists at Work, another classic in the field. But the lineage, or progression of thought, traces back to the Webbs' Methods of Social Study, and is most closely related to the Glaser and Strauss volume, The Discovery of Grounded Theory. The contributors to this book reflect a common concern with organization in the "down home" sense of social bonds opening and closing, of self-involvement, and most importantly social structure. The student of society will consequently find an assortment of knowledges that makes large portions of our society more understandable.