How does research in the social sciences happen? Comprising analyses of how research is conducted in specific areas through examples of problems on which significant work is being, or have been, done and focusing on the underlying theoretical and philosophical assumptions, the essays in Knowing the Social World offer bird's-eye views as well as in-depth studies of existing research methods and practices of social sciences. This book of twenty essays, divided into four parts, explores a variety of methodological approaches. It focuses on both the