The place of fieldwork in social science

The author, as an introduction to the book of Buford II. Junker, Fieldwork. An introduction to social sciences, presents the development and production of it as a sociological method of training, deployed at the University of Chicago, which meant, on the other hand, a detailed investigation including the collection and systematization of exemplary case studies and their analysis and processing. This was carried out under the direction of the author, and that work, is a history of the book. Throughout this presentation, the author devotes a tribute to the great researches from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries shaped the best tradition of the sociology: if work. Throughout the text emphasizes the role that this approach implies for training strategies, highlighting the role that direct observation has in the case of young social scientists and sociologists. That leads to an appreciation of the great potential of doing, thus, sociology of sociology, to advance the discipline. Adapted from the source document.