Book contents
- Finding Your Social Science Project
- Strategies for Social Inquiry
- Finding Your Social Science Project
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Detailed Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Overview
- Part II Playing with Ideas
- 4 Strategies
- 5 Heuristics
- Part III Playing with Data
- Part IV Playing with Theories
- Part V Conclusions
- Appendix A Surveys and Interviews
- References
- Index
4 - Strategies
from Part II - Playing with Ideas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 October 2022
Book contents
- Finding Your Social Science Project
- Strategies for Social Inquiry
- Finding Your Social Science Project
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Detailed Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Overview
- Part II Playing with Ideas
- 4 Strategies
- 5 Heuristics
- Part III Playing with Data
- Part IV Playing with Theories
- Part V Conclusions
- Appendix A Surveys and Interviews
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 4 discusses general strategies for finding a topic. This includes (a) finding your passion, (b) the life of the mind, (c) reading the secondary literature, (d) appraising the state of the world, (e) the familiar and the unfamiliar, (f) specializing and generalizing, and (g) the old and the new.
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- Finding your Social Science ProjectThe Research Sandbox, pp. 73 - 101Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022