Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences

Research in an Age of Info-glut

Kristin Luker

    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
  • Cover: Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences

Kristin Luker is Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley.