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With humor and empathy, Mark Edwards’s handbook provides undergraduate and early-career graduate students guidance in sociological writing of all kinds. Writing in Sociology offers unusual approaches to developing ideas into research questions, utilizing research literature, constructing research papers, and completing different kinds of course writing (including case studies, theory papers, and applied social science projects). New chapters in the Second Edition offer insights into giving and receiving effective peer review and presenting qualitative research results. By focusing on how to think about the goals and strategies implicit in each section of a writing project this book provides accessible advice to novice sociological writers.
Quantitative Papers The Data and Methods Section
Quantitative Papers The Data and Methods Section
Some people doubt that sociology is, in fact, scientific. The data and methods section of one’s research paper makes it clear that this discipline emphasizes some of the most central characteristics of an empirical science—carefully described, repeatable methods that allow other researchers to check one’s work and replicate one’s findings. This is an obvious place that my courtroom analogy breaks down. Lawyers are not likely to say to the jury, “And to get these data, we wrote three formal letters to the employer before the company finally provided us what we wanted.” They might occasionally talk about how forthcoming someone was in providing evidence, but they are not required to. Sociologists are required to make clear ...
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