Excerpt from Field Work and Social ResearchA scientific technique has been developed in the field work of the social sciences. Scattered through the reports of private investigating agen cies and government commissions there is a vast amount of valuable information on methods of making scientific investigations of social condi tions by first hand contact with the facts - that is, by field work. This book gathers together the well tested methods and techniques and attempts to present them in an accurate and practical form. The treatment is not exhaustive, yet it is believed that all of the significant points are touched upon with sufficient detail to make the book useful as a manual to field workers. The theoretical princi ples underlying scientific method applied to the investigation of social conditions are outlined with sufficient thoroughness to make the book sugges tive to students.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.