This book offers advice to doctoral researchers and graduate and
advanced undergraduate students on how to embark on their research.
Based on a decade of teaching early-stage researchers in the social
sciences at the LSE and other universities, and written with the
central problems of beginning researchers in mind, Bob Hancké guides
them through the process of thinking about the links between theory,
cases and data, and to do so in a way that helps to turn their initial
plausible ideas into convincing arguments. This lively book,
deliberately jargon-free and with a hands-on, pragmatic approach to
research design, addresses the problems that research students face -
or ignore, often at their peril - in the course of their first few
years. Its central message is that research is a complex and iterative
process in which researchers construct every relevant part of their
project with one goal in mind: make a persuasive point. They define
the question they ask and the debate they engage, construct their
cases and data to answer that question, and write it up as an argument
that brings out the strengths of their research design. It addresses
such key issues as statistical versus configurational approaches, time
in social science research, different types of case studies and
comparative research, and a critical approach to data. The Appendix
gives tips on presenting and discussing papers, and on crafting
research proposals.
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A Guide for Beginning Researchers in the Social Sciences
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780191570995
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
OUP Oxford
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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