Practicing Sociology: Tacit Knowledge for the Social Scientific Craft (Paperback)

Introduction: Vision, Decision, Revision: Finding Topics, Audiences, and Voices
David Stark
Part I. Encountering: Discovering a New Research Project
1. The Art of Recognizing What You Ought to Have Wanted to Look For
Andrew Abbott
2. Keeping One’s Distance: Truth and Ambiguity in Social Research
Delia Baldassarri
3. Notes for “Heuristics of Discovery”
Peter Bearman
4. Heuristics and Theorizing as Work on the Self
Michela Betta and Richard Swedberg
5. Curiosity Didn’t Kill the Cat
Barbara Czarniawska
6. Four Mechanisms for Finding (and Being Found by) Research Problems
Paul J. DiMaggio
7. The Education of a Sociologist
Marion Fourcade
8. When a Dissertation Chooses You
Eric Klinenberg
9. Heuristics for Discovery
John Levi Martin
10. Niklas Luhmann’s Card Index: The Fabrication of Serendipity
Johannes F. K. Schmidt
11. Openings
Lucy Suchman
Part II. Publishing: What Is Your Publication Strategy?
12. Shall I Publish This auf Deutsch or in English?
Jens Beckert
13. A Paper Is Like a Horse?and a Book Is Like a Whale?
Massimiano Bucchi
14. What’s Good Enough?
Wendy Espeland
15. Publishing in Modern Times
Neil D. Fligstein
16. Habits, Canvases, and Conversations: How I Think about Publishing
Shamus Rahman Khan
17. On Publication Strategies
Kristian Kreiner
18. How to Publish, but Most Importantly, Why
Michele Lamont
19. From Public Engagement to Publication
Jennifer Lee
20. Not Having a Publication Strategy Is My Strategy
Celia Lury
21. A Balanced Publication Strategy
Christine Musselin
Part III. Revising: How Do You Improve a Manuscript for Publication?
22. On Second Thought: Re Revising
Bruce G. Carruthers
23. Working at Writing
James M. Jasper
24. When Revising a Text Can Transform Your Research
Mignon R. Moore
25. Revisions as a Complex Intellectual Journey
Amalya L. Oliver
26. Author, Editor, Audience
Eric I. Schwartz
27. Why I Rewrite
Mario L. Small
28. To Revise or Rewrite Anew: That Is the Question
Marta Tienda
29. Thank You, Reviewer 2: Revising as an Underappreciated Process of Data Analysis
Stefan Timmermans and Iddo Tavory
30. Five Feet at a Time
Duncan J. Watts
31. Abolish the R&R
Christine L. Williams
Acknowledgments
About the Authors