Machine derived contents note: Purpose and Focus of this Book -- Participant Observation -- Rationale and Roles -- Planning the Project and Entering the Field -- Field Relations -- Observational Methods -- Interviewing Strategy and Tactics -- Recording, Indexing and Evaluating Interview Data -- Integrating Methods in Team Research -- Using History in Social Research -- Types of Applied Social Research -- Ethics in Field Research and Publication -- Focusing the Study and Analyzing the Data -- From Data Analysis to Reshaping Conceptual Schemes -- Scheme and Styles of Social Research