Purpose and focus of this book -- Participant observation: rationale and roles -- Planning the project and entering the field -- Field relations -- Observational methods -- Interviewing strategy and tactics -- Recording, indexing, and evaluating interview data -- Integrating methods of team research -- Using history in social research -- Types of applied social research -- Ethics in field research and publication -- Focusing the study and analyzing the data -- From data analysis to reshaping conceptual schemes -- Science and styles of social research

1. Social sciences -- Feld work
2. Sociology field work
3. Participant observation