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		Image from Amazon.com	Twenty lectures : sociological theory since World War II / Jeffrey C. Alexander by Alexander, Jeffrey C Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Columbia Univ. Press, c1987 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: HM24 A439T. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Ethnography. Volume II, Ethnographic fieldwork practice / edited by Alan Bryman by Bryman, Alan [ed.] Series: Sage benchmarks in research methods Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: London : Sage, 2001 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: GN345 E836. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Ethnography. Volume IV, Analysis and writing in ethnography / edited by Alan Bryman by Bryman, Alan [ed.] Series: Sage benchmarks in research methods Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: London : Sage, 2001 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: GN345 E836. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	The research act : a theoretical introduction to sociological methods / by Norman K. Denzin by Denzin, Norman K Edition: 3rd ed. Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1989 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: HM24 D469R 1989. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Using documents in social research / Lindsay Prior by Prior, Lindsay Series: Introducing qualitative methods Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: London : Sage, 2003 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (2)Call number: HM571 P746U, ... Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Researching social life / edited by Nigel Gilbert by Gilbert, Nigel [ed.] Edition: 3rd ed. Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: Los Angeles, Calif. : SAGE, c2008 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: HM511 R473 2008. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Ethnography. Volume III, Issues in ethnography / edited by Alan Bryman by Bryman, Alan [ed.] Series: Sage benchmarks in research methods Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: London : Sage, 2001 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: GN345 E836. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Ethnography. Volume I, The nature of ethnography / edited by Alan Bryman by Bryman, Alan [ed.] Series: Sage benchmarks in research methods Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: London : Sage, 2001 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: GN345 E836. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Local cover image Image from Amazon.com	Problematics of sociology [electronic resource] : the Georg Simmel lectures, 1995 / Neil J. Smelser. by Smelser, Neil J Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997 Online resources: Electronic Resources Availability: No items available. Found in Open Library: Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Interpreting qualitative data / David Silverman. by Silverman, David [author] Edition: 5th ed. Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Los Angeles : SAGE, c2014 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: HM571 578I 2014. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Local cover image Image from Amazon.com	Critical theory now [electronic resource] / edited by Philip Wexler. by Wexler, Philip, 1943- [ed.] Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: London ; Falmer Press, 1991 Online resources: Electronic Resources Availability: No items available. Found in Open Library: Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Local cover image Image from Amazon.com	Cultures of inquiry [electronic resource] : from epistemology to discourse in sociohistorical research / John R. Hall. by Hall, John R Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 2004 Online resources: Electronic Resources Availability: No items available. Found in Open Library: Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
			Critical issues in qualitative research methods by Morse, Janice M., ed Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 1994 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: RT81.5 M677C. Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Social research method : qualitative and quantitative approaches / W. Lawrence Neuman by Neuman, William Lawrence Edition: 4th ed. Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: Boston, Mass. : Allyn and Bacon, c2000 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: HM571 N485S 2000. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
			Social research methods : qualitative and quantitative approaches by Neuman, William Lawrence Edition: 3rd ed. Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: Boston, Mass. : Allyn and Bacon, 1997 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: HM48 N485S 1997. Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Social research methods : qualitative and quantitative approaches / W. Lawrence Neuman by Neuman, William Lawrence Edition: 6th ed. , international ed. Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: Boston, Mass. : Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, c2006 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: HM571 N485S 2006. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Classical sociological theory : rediscovering the promise of sociology / Glenn A. Goodwin, Joseph A. Scimecca by Goodwin, Glenn A Scimecca, Joseph A Material type: Text; Nature of contents: ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: Australia : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2006 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: HM435 G662C. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
			Postmodernism and social inguiry by Dickens, David R., ed Fontana, Andrea, ed Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Guilford Press, 1994 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: HM24 P677. Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Research in organizations : foundations and methods of inquiry / Richard A. Swanson, Elwood F. Holton III, editors by Swanson, Richard A, 1942- [ed.] Holton III, Elwood F, 1957- [ed.] Series: Publication in the Berrett-Koehler organizational performance series Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: San Francisco, Calif. : Berrett-Koehler , c2005 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: HD30.4 R473. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
			Analyzing social settings : a guide to qualitative observation and analysis by Lofland, John Lofland, Lyn H Edition: 3rd ed. Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: Belmont, Calif. : Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1995 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: HM48 L634A 1995. Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)