About this book series
Research methods and research methodology are at the heart of the human endeavors
that produce knowledge. Research methods and research methodology are central
aspects of the distinction between folk knowledge and the disciplined way in which
disciplinary forms of knowledge are produced. However, in the teaching of research
methods and methodology, there traditionally has been an abyss between descriptions
of how to do research, descriptions of research practices, and the actual lived research
praxis.
The purpose of this series is to encourage the publication of books that take a very
practical and pragmatic approach to research methods. For any action in research,
there are potentially many different alternative ways of how to go about enacting it.
Experienced practitioners bring to these decisions a sort of scientific feel for the game
that allows them to do what they do all the while expressing expertise. To transmit
such a feel for the game requires teaching methods that are more like those in highlevel
sports or the arts. Teaching occurs not through first principles and general
precepts but by means of practical suggestions in actual cases. The teacher of method
thereby looks more like a coach. This series aims at publishing contributions that teach
methods much in the way a coach would tell an athlete what to do next. That is, the
books in this series aim at praxis of method, that is, teaching the feel of the game of
social science research.
All Sense series are now published with Brill | Sense and details can be found at https://brill.com/page/sense
