By Howard S. Becker
Drawing on greater than 4 many years of expertise as a researcher and instructor, Howard Becker now brings to scholars and researchers the various precious ideas he has discovered. methods of the exchange can help scholars methods to take into consideration learn tasks. Assisted by way of Becker's sage recommendation, scholars could make larger experience in their learn and at the same time generate clean rules on the place to seem subsequent for brand new facts. The methods disguise 4 vast components of social technology: the production of the "imagery" to steer study; equipment of "sampling" to generate greatest type within the info; the improvement of "concepts" to prepare findings; and using "logical" how to discover systematically the consequences of what's came upon. Becker's recommendation levels from basic tips equivalent to altering an interview query from "Why?" to "How?" (as a manner of having humans to speak with no inquiring for a justification) to extra technical tips reminiscent of the right way to manage fact tables.Becker has extracted those tips from quite a few fields similar to paintings background, anthropology, sociology, literature, and philosophy; and his miraculous number of references levels from James Agee to Ludwig Wittgenstein. Becker reveals the typical ideas that lie in the back of strong social technology paintings, rules that practice to either quantitative and qualitative study. He deals useful recommendation, rules scholars can observe to their info with the boldness that they're going to go back with whatever they hadn't considered before.Like Writing for Social Scientists, tips of the exchange will deliver reduction and luxury to generations of scholars. Written within the casual, obtainable kind for which Becker is understood, this e-book might be a necessary source for college students in a large choice of fields."An rapid vintage. . . . Becker's tales and reflections make an outstanding e-book, one who will locate its manner into the fingers of an outstanding many social scientists, and as with every thing he writes, it really is energetic and obtainable, a pleasure to read."—Charles Ragin, Northwestern collage
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Since they are told to a professional audience, these stories have certain generic features and problems. ) Telling Scientific Stories Creating an acceptable scientific theory or explanation of some phenomenon constrains the telling of the story in two ways. The story must first of all “work,” e coherent in any of the many ways stories can be of one piece. It has to get us from here to there in such a way that when we reach the end we say yes, that's the way it has to end. ” It's not obvious what “makes sense” means here.
I suppose there's also an argument about what it would mean for stories and facts to be congruent. Thomas Kuhn taught us that our observations are not “pure,” that they are shaped by our concepts—we see what we have ideas about, and can't see what we don't have words and ideas for. So, in a strong sense, there aren't any “facts” independent of the ideas we use to describe them. That's true, but irrelevant here. Recognizing the conceptual shaping of our perceptions, it is still true that not everything our concepts would, in principle, let us see actually turns up in what we look at.
When the taxi driver who was called to take her home from the party rings the bell, they both ignore it. Now, looking back, he wants, instead of getting involved with her, to send her away politely, but finds that he cannot change his actions—his character apparently does not have the will to do it—in such a way as to change the eventual outcome. Finally, when the Recorder asks if he wants to change the murder itself, they have this exchange: KÜRMANN. I know how it happened. RECORDER. By chance?