基本信息出版社：W. W. Norton & Company
页码：261 页
出版日期：2004年02月
ISBN：0393978141
条形码：9780393978148
装帧：平装
开本：32
丛书名：Contemporary Societies Series
外文书名：发现的方法

内容简介 Methods of Discovery is organized around strategies for deepening arguments in order to find the best ways to study social phenomena. This exciting book is not about the mechanics of doing social science research, but about habits of thinking that enable students to use those mechanics in new ways, by coming up with new ideas and combining them more effectively with old ones. Examples from throughout the social sciences help show how these moves can open new lines of thinking. Each chapter covers several moves and their reverses (if these exist), discussing particular examples of the move as well as its logical and theoretical structure. This book offers readers a new way of thinking about directions for their research and new ways to imagine information relevant to their research problems.
作者简介 Andrew Abbott is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. He is the author, most recently, of Chaos of Disciplines and Time Matters: On Theory and Method, both from the University of Chicago Press. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Professor Abbott has written and lectured widely on occupations and professions, social science methods, social theory, and the history of the Chicago School of Sociology.
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Abbott (sociology, U. of Chicago) suggests that social science research education overly stresses methodologies, while neglecting heuristics, the "gambits of imagination" and "mental moves they employ to hasten discovery." After stressing the importance of methodological rigor, he examines how heuri