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This timely collection maps developments and explores new territories tmeet the challenges and bring about possibilities for social science inquiries —CHOICEThis is a jewel among methods handbooks, bringing together a formidable collection of international contributors tcomment on every aspect of the various central issues, complications, and controversies in the core methodological traditions It is designed tmeet the needs of those disciplinary and nondisciplinary problem-oriented social inquirers for a comprehensive overview of the methodological literature The text is divided int7 sections: Overviews of methodological approaches in the social sciences Cases, comparisons, and theory Quantification and experiment Rationality, complexity and collectivity Interpretation, critique and postmodernity Discourse construction Engagement Edited by twleading figures in the field, The SAGE Handbook of Social Science Methodology is a landmark work in the field of research methods More than just a cookbook that teaches readers how tmaster techniques, it will give social scientists in all disciplines an appreciation for the full range of methodological debates today, from the quantitative tthe qualitative, giving them deeper and sharpen insights inttheir own research questions It will generate debate, solutions, and a series of questions for researchers texploit and develop in their research and teaching
