The Rhetoric of Social Research : Understood and Believed / / ed. by Albert Hunter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bennett, James, Contributor.

DeVault, Marjorie L., Contributor.

Erikson, Kai, Contributor.

Fischer, Claude S., Contributor.

Gusfield, Joseph R., Contributor.

Hunter, Albert, Contributor.

Hunter, Albert, Editor.

McGill, Lawrence T., Contributor.

Milofsky, Carl, Contributor.

Zarefsky, David, Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, [1990]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction Rhetoric in Research, Networks of Knowledge

On Sociological Prose

Writing and Seeing Is There Any Sociology Here?

Entering Sociology into Public Discourse

Two Genres of Sociology: A Literary Analysis of The American Occupational Structure and Tally's Corner

Women Write Sociology: Rhetorical Strategies

Setting the Scene, Sampling, and Synecdoche

Doing Science by the Numbers: The Role of Tables and Other Representational Conventions in Scientific Journal Articles

Merton's "Social Structure and Anomie": Suggestions for Rhetorical Analysis

How Rhetoric and Sociology Rediscovered Each Other

References

List of Contributors

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023)

ISBN:

0-8135-6928-1