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mined position. Lawyers engage in advocacy research in attempting to prove the guilt or innocence of defendants. Special interest groups engage in advocacy research when trying to influence the vote of lawmakers on a particular bill. The aim of advocacy research is to convince others ( juries, lawmakers) to think or act in a given way. Hence advocacy research presents evidence selectively, focusing on supporting evidence and suppressing contrary or inconvenient evidence. Social research, in contrast, does not suppress contrary or inconvenient evidence. In the social sciences we may begin with a point of view, but (unlike advocacy research) we do not want that point of view to determine the outcome of our research. Rule 1 is not intended to suggest that you need to check your idealism at the door when you embark on a social research project. Far from that-if you don't want to change the world for the better, you might not have the doggedness needed to do good social research. But rule 1 is intended to warn that you don't want to be blinded by preconceived ideas so that you fail to look for contrary evidence, or you fail to recognize contrary evidence when you do encounter it, or you

Author

Firebaugh, Glenn

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691125466