Frontmatter
Contents
1 Salsa Dancing? In the Social Sciences?
2 What's It All About?
3 An Ode to Canonical Social Science
4 What Is This a Case of, Anyway?
5 Reviewing the Literature
6 On Sampling, Operationalization, and Generalization
7 Getting Down to the Nitty-Gritty
8 Field (and Other) Methods
9 Historical-Comparative Methods
10 Data Reduction and Analysis
11 Living Your Life as a Salsa- Dancing Social Scientist
Appendix One. What to Do If You Don't Have a Case
Appendix Two. Tools of the Trade
Appendix Three. Special Resources for Specific Methods
Appendix Four. Sample Search Log
Notes
Bibliography
Author's Note
Acknowledgments
Index