TY - JOUR AU - Bullock, Denise PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Qualitative Field Research JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/qualitative-field-research SP - AB - The systematic, scientific study of human behavior can be quite varied and complex.Unlike studying the mineral composition of iron—which remains constant across sample,time and locale—human beings vary across individuals and groups, over time, and acrosscultures. Sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, psychologists, historians,philosophers, and students of literature, among others have, by necessity, developed arange of methods to better understand the human subject, behavior, and the socialconstruction of reality. ER -