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SALSA DANCING INTO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences h Research in an Age of Info-glut Kristin Luker HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 2008 Copyright © 2008 byKristinLuker All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Luker,Kristin. Salsa dancing into the social sciences : research in an age of info-glut /KristinLuker. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-674-03157-9 (alk. paper) 1. Social sciences—Research. 2.Socialsciences—Methodology. I. Title. H62.L7995 2008 300.72—dc22 2008018302 Contents 1 Salsa Dancing? In the Social Sciences? 1 2 What’s It All About? 22 3 An Ode to Canonical Social Science 40 4 What Is This a Case of, Anyway? 51 5 Reviewing the Literature 76 6 On Sampling,Operationalization, and Generalization 99 7 Getting Down to the Nitty-Gritty 129 8 Field (and Other) Methods 155 9 Historical-Comparative Methods 190 10 Data Reduction and Analysis 198 11 Living Your Life as a Salsa-Dancing Social Scientist 217 vi Contents Appendix One: What to Do If You Don’t Have a Case 229 Appendix Two: Tools of the Trade 233 Appendix Three: Special Resources forSpecific Methods 236 Appendix Four: Sample Search Log 242 Notes 243 Bibliography 285 Author’s Note 311 Acknowledgments 312 Index 315 SALSA DANCING INTO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
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