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UNINA9910455522603321 |
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Lieberson Stanley <1933-> |
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Making it count [[electronic resource] ] : the improvement of social research and theory / / Stanley Lieberson |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1985 |
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1-282-35531-7 |
9786612355318 |
0-520-90842-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Sociology - Research - Methodology |
Social sciences - Research - Methodology |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-251) and index. |
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pt. 1. Current practices -- pt. 2. Toward a solution. |
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This title reexamines and reconsiders the model of empirical research underlying most empirical work. The goal is neither a whitewash nor capital punishment, but rather it is to reform and mold empirical research into an activity that contributes as much as possible to a rigorous understanding of society. Without worrying about defining science or even determining the essence of the scientific enterprise, the goal is one that pools together logical thinking and empirically determined information. One of the fundamental issues to be addressed in this volume: Are there questions currently studied that are basically unanswerable even if the investigator had ideal nonexperimental data? If so, what are the alternative questions that can be dealt with successfully by empirical social research, and how should they be approached? In the chapters ahead, it will be important to keep in mind this doctrine of the undoable. Of course, one cannot simply mutter ";undoable"; when a difficult obstacle is encountered, turn off the computer, and look in the want ads for a new job-or at least a new task. Instead, it means considering if there is some inherent logical reason or sociological force that makes certain empirical questions |
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unanswerable. There are four types of undoable questions to consider: those that are inherently impossible; those that are premature; those that are overly complicated; and those that empirical and theoretical knowledge have nullified. |
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UNINA9910451726303321 |
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Saxon Dan <1958-> |
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To save her life [[electronic resource] ] : disappearance, deliverance, and the United States in Guatemala / / Dan Saxon |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 |
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1-282-77224-4 |
9786612772245 |
0-520-94111-X |
1-4356-0386-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (340 p.) |
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Disappeared persons - Guatemala |
Political persecution - Guatemala |
Human rights - Guatemala |
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United States Foreign relations Guatemala |
Guatemala Foreign relations United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-293) and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Map of Guatemala -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1. Thursday, July 23, 1992 -- 2. Thursday Morning and Afternoon -- 3. Friday, July 24, 1992 -- 4. Saturday and Sunday, July 25-26, 1992 -- 5. The Catholic Church in Guatemala, 1524-1992 -- 6. Monday and Tuesday, July 27-28, 1992 -- 7. Wednesday, July 29, 1992 -- 8. Thursday, July 30, 1992 -- PART TWO: THE VISA -- 9. Friday, July 31, 1992 -- 10. Saturday, August 1, 1992 -- 11. Sunday, August 2, 1992 -- 12. Monday, August 3, 1992 -- 13. Tuesday, August 4, 1992 -- 14. Wednesday, August 5, 1992 -- 15. Thursday, August 6, 1992 -- |
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The Aftermath -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography and Further Reading -- Index |
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Part human rights drama, part political thriller, part love story, this riveting narrative chronicles the disappearance of one woman as it tells the larger story of the past fifty years of violence and struggle for social justice and democracy, and U.S. intervention in Guatemala. Maritza Urrutia was abducted from a middle-class neighborhood while taking her son to school in 1992. To Save Her Life tells the story of her ordeal which included being interrogated in secret by army intelligence officers about her activities as part of a political opposition group. Chained to a bed, blindfolded, and deprived of sleep, Maritza was ultimately spared because her family was able to contact influential intermediaries, including author Dan Saxon, who was in Guatemala working for the Catholic Church's Human Rights Office. Here Saxon brings to life the web of players who achieved her release: the Church, the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Congress, numerous NGOs, guerrilla groups, politicians, students, and the media. Reaching back to 1954, when Maritza's grandparents were activists, the book is a study of the complex and often cruel politics of human rights, and its themes reverberate from Guatemala to Guantánamo to Iraq. |
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