Writing in Sociology

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4129-1424-6
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

With humor and empathy, this handbook provides undergraduate and early-career graduate students guidance in sociological writing of all kinds. It offers unusual approaches to developing ideas into research questions, utilizing research literature, constructing research papers, and completing different kinds of course writing (including case studies, theory papers, and applied social science projects). The book has the tone of Becker's Writing For Social Scientists, but is more targeted to the undergraduate or early-career graduate student struggling with a first research paper. By focusing on how to think about the goals and strategies implicit in each section of a writing project, this book provides accessible advise to novice sociological writers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edwards, Mark Evan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten, Studientechnik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten, Studientechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section I: Thinking Broadly about Writing Sociology
1. Introduction
2. Turning Ideas Into Researchable Questions
3. Overview of Writing a Research Paper: An Extended Analogy
4. Borrowing Well from the Literature
5. Citing Sources: Why, When and How
Section II Writing Quantitative Papers
6. Quantitative Papers: The Introduction
7. Quantitative Papers: The Literature Review
8. Quantitative Papers: The Data and Methods Section
9. Quantitative Papers: Presenting Results
10. Quantitative Papers: Discussions and Conclusions
Section III Writing Qualitative Papers
11. Qualitative Papers: Ethnographic Interviewing and Storytelling
12. Writing a Case Study
13. The Internship Journal
Section IV Other Sociology Writing Tasks
14. Revisiting Literature Reviews: Applied Sociology Research Projects
15. Writing Book Reviews
16. Tips on Writing Theory and Content Papers
Appendix: Word Use an Misuse

Über Autor(innen)

Edwards, Mark Evan
Since 1997, Mark Edwards (Ph.D., University of Washington) has taught stratification, research methods and writing, and social statistics in the Sociology Department at Oregon State University. His recent research on food insecurity has been used by nonprofit groups, state agencies, and the media addressing domestic hunger in the Northwest. Many of his research papers have appeared in social science journals such as Social Forces, Rural Sociology, and Social Science Quarterly. But a favorite part of his work is helping students improve their social science writing.