Constructing Social Research: The Unity and Diversity of Method

Constructing Social Research is an innovative text that can serve as an introduction to social research methods course, or as a capstone to an advanced course introducing a social scientific discipline. Rather than offer an inventory of data collection and analysis techniques, its primary goal is show unity within the diversity of activities that are called social research—to make sense of social research in a way that demonstrates how all social researchers construct representations of social life, using theories, systematic data collection, and careful examination of that data.