Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards

If you are reading King, Keohane, and Verba's  Designing Social Inquiry  for class (or if you are assigning it for your students to read) some - but probably not all - of the chapters in this volume are a necessary companion. KKV remains a controversial perspective on qualitative research and should obviously not be read as the definitive view, Rethinking Social Inquiry attempts to find strengths and weaknesses in the text and reflects the subsequent methodological debates that the original text inspired. If KKV is off your radar (aka you are not a social scientist) or not relevant to your interests or work, however, this book is probably not a necessary read; if you are concerned about methodology - quantitative, qualitative, or interpretive - it's worth the purchase.

I read this book as part of a university course. The sections felt more like a collection of essays, presenting different views and defences on those views. It would have been more useful if it could draw more across the different social inquiry domains to discuss the interesting viewpoints that cross-cut these domains e.g. Psych, poli science. The enjoyment of the different sections also varied, depending on the writing styles.

King, Keohane and Verba's book "Designing Social Inquiry" has been the bane of soft science graduate students for over a decade. "Rethinking Social Inquiry" is a much better and much clearer explanation of liberal arts scientific study. You shouldn't read one without the other.

This book only really makes sense if you have already read the KKV book that it extensively critiques. It is like an extensive rebuttal to the arguments of that book, but not exactly a standalone book on its own.

Purchased for a faculty member and I received no complaints.

An indispensable book for social scientists

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A absolute must for the civilized individual in political science and related fields. Read together, e.g., with Goertz and Mahoney, Gerring, Dunning, George and Bennett, and Blatter and Haverland, and some others, and you will become a civilized scholar if you were not one already.

Excelente producto, muy útil para mis clases ya que soy profesor de nivel universitario y con materias variadas. Sus contenidos son claros y la versión digital es súper útil pues lo puedes leer justo en el tamaño de letra que más fácil se acomode a tus necesidades.