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245		0	_aForms of life
260			_a _bMIT Press, _c2019
300			_a186 pages ; 23 cm
500			_athe method and meaning of sociology
505			_a1 Introduction 1 _r2 Participant Comprehension 29-- _r3 Feeling Your Way in Interview-Based Fieldwork 41-- _r4 The Road to Interactional Expertise 57-- _r5 Comprehension, Relativism, Alternation, and Lies 65-- _r6 More on the Nature of Sociology 79-- _r7 The Stranger, Estrangement, and Estrangement Techniques 89-- _r8 Bringing the Story Back Home 99-- _r9 Tangible versus Inferential Experiments and Probes versus-- _rSurveys 109-- _r10 Against Tribalism: Alternation and More 133-- _r11 Saving the Science of Sociology 143-- _rAppendix 1: Code of Practice for Interviews (circa 1997) 151-- _rAppendix 2: Works by the Author Making Substantive Contributions to the-- _rChapters 153-- _rBonus Extra: When Interviews Don't Go According to Plan-A Quiz 157-- _rAcknowledgments 161-- _rNotes 163-- _rReferences 173-- _rIndex 181--
520			_a'Harry Collins is a highly respected and well-known sociologist of science and one of the leaders in the founding of that field. In a project that befits his stature in science studies and in the broader field of sociology, he has turned to a more general reflection on how he did what he has done, and to drawing lessons from his own experiences over many years--lessons about how to do the kind of thing he has so successfully done himself. In particular, he has thought intensively about methods, about the way he did the work that he is justly renowned for, and especially about the methodological issues that have stirred up so much passionate discussion in sociology. In this book he uses the materials he has produced over so many years of research to draw some basic lessons about how to go about studying collective activities, and especially about what bases our belief that we are learning something useful when we gather whatever kind of data we gather. The goal then here is to provide a comprehensive, critical, and reflexive introduction to interpretative qualitative social science methodology, based on an entire career's worth of professional experience, and told in a similarly accessible style to Collins's other books'-- Provided by publisher.
590			_bIncludes bibliographical references and index.
630			_aHM SOCIOLOGY _91301
650			_aSociology _xMethodology _911151
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700			_aCollins, Harry _eAuthor _911152
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