CONTENT : Preface vii 1.Anthropology and the Social Sciences 1 2.The Foundations of Social Research 28 3.Preparing for Research 69 4.The Literature Search 96 5.Research Design: Experiments and Experimental Thinking 109 6.Sampling 146 7.Sampling Theory 169 8.Nonprobability Sampling and Choosing Informants 186 9.Interviewing: Unstructured and Semistructured 210 10.Structured Interviewing I: Questionnaires 251 11.Structured Interviewing II: Cultural Domain Analysis 299 12.Scales and Scaling 318 13.Participant Observation 342 14.Field Notes: How to Take Them, Code Them, Manage Them 387 15.Direct and Indirect Observation 413 16.Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis 451 17.Qualitative Data Analysis I: Text Analysis 463 18..Qualitative Data Analysis II: Models and Matrices 522 19. Univariate Analysis 549 20. Bivariate Analysis: Testing Relations 594 21. Multivariate Analysis 649 Appendix A: Table of Random Numbers 697 Appendix B: Table of Areas under a Normal Curve 700 Appendix C: Student's t Distribution 703 Appendix D: Chi-Square Distribution Table 704 Appendix E: F Tables for the .05 and .01 Levels of Significance706 Appendix F: Resources for Field workers 710 References 711 Subject Index 771 Author Index 791 About the Author 803