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“You might think that dancing doesn’t have a lot to do with social research, and doing social research is probably why you picked this book up in the first place. But trust me. Salsa dancing is a practice as well as a metaphor for a kind of research that will make your life easier and better.” Savvy, witty, and sensible, this unique book is both a handbook for defining and completing a research project, and an astute introduction to the neglected history and changeable philosophy of modern social science. In this volume, Kristin Luker guides novice researchers in: ,Knowing the difference between an area of interest and a research topic ,Defining the relevant parts of a potentially infinite research literature ,Mastering sampling, operationalization, and generalization ,Understanding which research methods best answer your questions ,Beating writer’s block Most important, she shows how friendships, non-academic interests, and even salsa dancing can make for a better researcher. “You know about setting the kitchen timer and writing for only an hour, or only 15 minutes if you are feeling particularly anxious. I wrote a fairly large part of this book feeling exactly like that. If I can write an entire book 15 minutes at a time, so can you.”
- Sales Rank: #92908 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Harvard University Press
- Published on: 2010-04-10
- Released on: 2010-03-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.20" h x .90" w x 5.50" l, .90 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 336 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
Luker's book offers a startlingly original and unorthodox take on how to teach research methods, and is funny accessible, and inviting too. It gives a down-to-earth view of how knowledge evolves, how good research questions gel, and how to go about creating a research design. I cannot wait to be able to assign it to my students. (Michèle Lamont, Harvard University)
An irreverent and engaging mixture of memoir, history of research methods, and 'how-to' manual, Luker's book is chock-full of helpful suggestions to turn an idea (even a half-baked idea) into a meaningful and rigorous research project. The conversational style, the witty style, and the metaphors sprinkled through the pages make the ideas come alive. (Rebecca Klatch, University of California, San Diego)
Kristin Luker has managed to produce a charming and effective manual on how to get through the research process with most of one's enthusiasm still intact. This is a guidebook for the methodologically bewildered, with an attractive blend of homespun wisdom, illustrated from her own research career, as well as glimpses of herself, her family and her enthusiasms―of which the salsa dancing of the title seems to be one―threaded through a lucid and accessible discussion of the elements of research practice. Although it will be a comforting and useful read for postgraduates, which is its intended market, it is already on my undergraduate recommended list. This is a refreshing and well-judged guide produced by an engaging writer in touch with a long career's lessons and the changing realities of researching today. For young researchers undertaking their first project or beginning a dissertation, it should prove an excellent guide. The book sets out to rethink the existing conventions of research practice… A great deal of the book's attractiveness lies in its refusal to pursue the grandiose and the ineffable. Endorsing what used to be called 'theories of the middle range,' this approach eschews master narratives and grand theory. A little modest realism about what the aims of social research can be, and ought to be, rather than inflated claims and rhetoric in pursuit of what it hoped to be for so long, goes a long way, and makes for a book that will, I suspect, generate a spirit of optimism in those who fall for its down-to-earth charms… Above all, however, this is a book to enjoy―and for a text on method this is rare indeed. Really enjoyable writing among social scientists is itself, unfortunately, a rarity, and it is a pleasure to welcome into the canon someone who celebrates the teaching role as well and successfully as Luker. Her determined cheer is a tonic, and a perspective well worth fostering in every student approaching the social-research process. More than that, however, she has developed a robust, effective approach to the conduct and practices of research and to the question of how one should prepare for research. (Leslie Gofton Times Higher Education 2008-11-27)
I enjoyed this book very much and I thought it was one of the best books on the philosophy of the social sciences I have read, ever. (Tyler Cowen Marginal Revolution 2009-02-06)
Review
Luker's book offers a startlingly original and unorthodox take on how to teach research methods, and is funny accessible, and inviting too. It gives a down-to-earth view of how knowledge evolves, how good research questions gel, and how to go about creating a research design. I cannot wait to be able to assign it to my students. (Michele Lamont, Harvard University)
About the Author
Kristin Luker is Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
A different research methods book
By Gary
This is an interesting and very different book about doing research. Let's start with some unequivocally positive points: it is beautifully written - not at all like a recipe book but rather a stroll with the author, in which she dispenses her wisdom, in the manner of craftsperson to apprentice. There's lots of anecdote and example and you get to feel that you know the author quite well by the end of the first chapter. She becomes a friend.
Or not, depending on your predilection in friends. In fact, I did like her, but I wouldn't want to spend more than a day in close company with her. (Rather like my parents in this respect.) She is assertive, has spent all her life in the academy, has a husband who went to Harvard, runs her doberman in the park - and she is pretty sure that she is right on most things, so there is a distinctly parental tone to the advice being given: a distict lack of diffidence - and JBS Haldane's 'duty of doubt' is nowhere in sight. This may be an unfair summary of what she is really like, but it's what comes over from the text. You may find the repeated use of the salsa dancing metaphor irritating and confusing. Confusing, because it is used in its literal sense (go out and salsa to get the neurons firing) and it is used as a proxy for interpretative research (a term that isn't used in the text at all, in fact). And paradoxically I felt that the book would be difficult for new doctoral researchers (to whom it is targetted). The thing about an apprentice is that you are standing next to the craftsperson, can watch and ask questions. By contrast, when things are presented in print in a loosely structured, narrative way it is difficult - unless you already have a lifetime of experience with which to contextualise the narrative - to know where on earth you are. I felt this at times with this book. I would recommend passages of brilliance to my doctoral students, but not the whole book.
And there is the question of whether one agrees in fact with what the author is saying about 'salsa dancing' (aka interpretative) research. This is pretty important. While she beautifully explains why the methods of what she calls 'canonical' social science are inadequate, she seems to fall for what Mouzelis has called a kind of 'crypto functionalism' in re-adopting its tenets in sampling and use of variables (for which the term 'elements' is substituted) and its goal in generalization. She can't explain the problem of generalization for case study, as she freely admits, suggesting that we have to substitute 'logical generalization' for 'statistical generalization' in the case study. I'm afraid I don't agree: you can't generalize at all from a case study and shouldn't expect to. What you can do is to explain one case with a freedom to look at it holistically, rather than in terms of variables or elements. In this sense, the author explains the debt we owe to Foucault near the beginning of the book, but then waves goodbye to him after the first couple of chapters. What case researchers have to do is immerse themselves in a subject or focus (the case) in such a way that they are able to explain it as a case of some kind of analytical frame (eg World War II as a case of a 'just war': WW2 is the case; the 'just war' is the analytical frame - this is what it is a case OF). I don't think readers would get this view of case study from this book. Rather, you will find an alternative way of doing what Luker calls 'canonical' social science. Maybe this is valid, but it's a very idiosyncratic way of viewing case research, and you won't find this acknowledged in the narrative, which is at times a little presumptive of its correctness as a way of doing non-'canonical' research. There are other ways of seeing issues holistically and doing the business of the research.
What is lovely in this book is the way that Luker, near the beginning of her book, discusses the framing of the research and the establishment of the research question, distinguishing it from the research interest. As she points out, this is something with which many students - no, the great majority of students - have difficulty. She comes up with some nice ideas such as the 'explanandum' (the thing being explained) and the 'explanans' (the explaining thing) as essential elements to a study. I would recommend this book just for this insight, though there is much more to be admired here. But it is a book for tutors, I feel, rather than students. Perhaps only 4 stars is unfair, but this is because the book doesn't really do what I think it set out to do - to wit, to talk to students. You need to understand what she is talking about to understand what she is talking about.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Worth reading for doctoral students when they are planning a dissertation
By jaime f
This is remarkably unboring for a methodology book. It also helped me enormously to calm down and write my dissertation proposal, which I just handed in. I'm very happy to have read it.
Other reviewers have some valid critiques-- there is a (too?) confident, parental tone, and the salsa metaphor doesn't work all that well if you don't like or know about salsa dancing. On the other hand, she really is trying to make a case for how to do research that is going to be acceptable to "the canonical social scientist" (which, at least in my sociology department, is most faculty members) and still let the data speak for itself.
In other words, if you're planning to do something qualitative, or if you want support for ideas that won't be immediately recognizable to established (quant-oriented) researchers as a legitimate project, DEFINITELY read this.
Even if you're super into quantitative methods and want some help working out your question in relation to theory, you should read it. Best 17 bucks I've spent this year.
7 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Following the music
By A. A. Suarez Avila
This is a great book, the advice is to work smarter not harder. Easy to read and very helpful, it really is like salsa lessons for social researchers: learn one or two basic steps, find the right partner, focus on the rhythm of your research, and then... enjoy it!!!
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