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Yet standard methodology texts (Bailey, 1978; Moser and Kalton, 1971; Selltiz, Wrightsman and Cook, 1976) see the selection of a research Early field experiences 23 problem and the design of the investigation as the first stage in all research. , 1964) indicate that in field studies, research design and the collection and interpretation of data take place simultaneously. Furthermore, Becker et al. (1961) point out that their study did not start with a research design, as they remark: In one sense, our study had no design.
The study of bureaucratic elites is perhaps one of the least researched areas in sociology. Yet we are a society that is highly bureaucratised, highly centralised and highly manipulated. Wright Mills (1956, 1959) for sociologists to turn their sociological imaginations to the study of bureaucratic elites has gone largely unheeded. Most of our research efforts have been in the service of these elites. But now, in the 1970s, there is a growing unrest that our major societal institutions are not serving the public interest and that these institutions must somehow be made more visible and accountable to the public-at-large.
The researcher is in a position to observe activities that are not visible to all parts of the organisation. By making these activities visible through his reporting, the researcher provides data for evaluation both within and outside the system. If information is provided that is perceived as unfavourable to the institution, the career of the informant is in jeopardy. In my own research of military elites, the lack of clearcut formal rules for dealing with me plus the threat perceived to personal careers have been major impediments to obtaining data.