In this chapter, I provide an overview of field research, and then introduce to you the first of several themes integrated throughout this guide: the effects of status characteristics on the …

thinking. Field research can provide an empirical basis (and, in some cases, the only basis) for challenging conventional wisdom or for testing a research question, a theoretical proposition or …

A step-by-step guide to planning and conducting successful fieldwork using qualitative research methods, including identifying research questions, selecting participants, and collecting and …

Approach to field research based on the assumption that an objective social reality exists and can be observed and reported accurately. A report on social life that focuses on detailed and …

Its goal is the same as research done in the library or on the Internet: to gather information that contributes to your understanding of an issue or question and to organize those findings in a …

Fieldwork Ready is intended to help you to become an effective researcher, whether you are involved in agronomy, soil science, hydrology, geography, or any other field-based study.

We are five political scientists interested in providing graduate students and other early-career researchers helpful resources for field research that we lacked when we first began our work.