Thirty-five years ago, the four authors of this book addressed the problems of validity in social science research. They were interested in new and unused methods for obtaining information. The original edition and an expanded version have often been cited as justification for using novel means to supplement, if not replace, conventional techniques, especially survey and archival research. Illustrations abound in this book. While the novelty of the illustrations will keep many a graduate student amused, the more serious purpose is to authorize and motivate ingenuity in obtaining information. Even more fundamental is the strategy of combining very different methods so that research results can, by triangulation, withstand ‘threats to validity’ that so frequently invalidate single-measure, conventional research.
Cuprins
Approximations to Knowledge
Approximations to Knowledge
Physical Traces
Erosion and Accretion
Archives I
The Running Record
Archives II
The Episodic and Private Record
Simple Observation
Contrived Observation
Hidden Hardware and Control
A Final Note
A Statistician on Method
Cardinal Newman′s Epitaph
Despre autor
Professor Schwartz came to Syracuse after almost 25 years as a distinguished teacher and scholar in both law and sociology. He is the author of many scholarly publications in both fields, including the books Society and the Legal Order, Unobtrusive Measures, Criminal Law: Theory and Process, and the Handbook of Regulation and Administrative Law. He is recognized as a leading authority on law and society. He taught on the law and sociology faculties at Northwestern and Yale universities and was dean and professor of law at State University of New York at Buffalo. Professor Schwartz was the founding editor of the Law and Society Review.
Professor Schwartz teaches courses in law and society, public administration and legal process, and criminal law.
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