TY - BOOK AU - Whyte,William Foote TI - Creative problem solving in the field: reflections on a career SN - 076198920X (cloth : acidfree paper) AV - HM48 .W45 1997 U1 - 301.0723 21 PY - 1997/// CY - Walnut Creek PB - AltaMira Press KW - Sociology KW - Research KW - Methodology KW - Fieldwork KW - Social sciences N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-153) and index; Gaining access to the field -- Systematizing participant observation -- Interviewing in the field -- Facts interpretation, and ethics in qualitative inquiry -- Transactional relationships -- Money and motivation -- Socio-technical systems -- Studying culture and intercultural relations -- On combining research methods -- On history : how the past shapes present and future -- Learning from Mondragón -- Sociology as social science -- Methods for doing applied social research -- Combining consulting and applied social research -- A vision for sociology and society ER -