Academic Methods Bibliography

Often in my university career, I have found that knowing how to do something is what I really needed to learn. Once I figured this out, I started doing much better in my university classes.

Here, I provide a set of resources that I hope will help students, authors, and academics to do their work in better ways.

Some of the resources are more specific to sociology, but I try in each category to also have many that are general.

Please let me know if you read this list and think a source should be added. It is an evolving list, and I don't pretend to have an exhaustive bibliography here!

These references are biased toward European writers. I've made it a project to correct that over time.

Epistemology

What are you doing when you write, anyway? I've often struggled with understanding the role of writing, and trying to understand how different theorists understand their acts of writing within their theories. This is my working bibliography of discussions about that issue, and in general about the issue of what it means to write as someone attempting to build "knowledge" (if we even want to make a claim that building knowledge is what we're doing).

Abbott, Andrew Delano. 2001. Chaos of Disciplines. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Chalmers, Alan F. 1982. What Is This Thing Called Science? St. Lucia, Australia: University of Queensland Press.

Devlin, William J., and Alisa Bokulich, eds. 2015. Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On. Vol. 311. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Feyerabend, Paul. 1993. Against Method. 3rd ed. London, UK and New York: Verso.

Fuller, Steve. 1988. Social Epistemology. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Goldman, Alvin I. 1999. Knowledge in a Social World. Oxford, UK and New York: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press.

Goldman, Alvin I., and Dennis Whitcomb, eds. 2011. Social Epistemology: Essential Readings. Oxford, UK and New York: Oxford University Press.

Greco, John, and Ernest Sosa, eds. 1999. The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Haddock, Adrian, Alan Millar, and Duncan Pritchard, eds. 2010. Social Epistemology. Oxford, UK and New York: Oxford University Press.

Kuhn, Thomas S. 1996. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 3rd ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Popper, Karl R. 2002. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. London, UK and New York: Routledge.

Rawls, Anne Warfield. 2004. Epistemology and Practice: Durkheim’s The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press.

TallBear, Kimberly. 2013. “Introduction.” Pp. 1–29 in Native American DNA: tribal belonging and the false promise of genetic science. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

• Discusses feminist and social epistemology, esp. that of Donna Harraway.
  

Graduate School and Jobs after Graduate School

Calarco, Jessica McCrory. 2020. A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Frank, Frederick, and Karl Stein. 2004. Playing the Game: The Streetsmart Guide to Graduate School. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse.

• This book is annoying and offensive in a lot of ways, but it is sometimes good for a laugh. It also taught me a lot of the basics of what graduate school was when I had no idea. The author names are pseudonyms (the citation is "Frank and Stein" ...).
  

Kelsky, Karen. 2015. The Professor Is in: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D into a Job. New York: Penguin Random House.

• I really appreciate this book for its discussion of many issues important for graduate students that are usually not explicitly discussed (e.g., how negotiations of academic job offers work).
  

Peters, Robert L. 1997. Getting What You Came for: The Smart Student’s Guide to Earning a Master’s or a Ph.D. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

• This is the main book that prepared me for the PhD. Written by a white conservation biologist, so perhaps that is part of why I identified with it, since I was that at the time, so I can't fully speak on whether it would be appreciated by everyone. But I think beyond any positionality it provides a lot of great information. I don't agree with everything he says, e.g., that you should think of your fellow graduate students as your "competitors", but there is still a lot of good information here. (Yes you're technically in competitions for jobs, but that shouldn't be the main way we frame our colleagues!).
  

Power and Knowledge Production

This kind of discussion is often called "research ethics". I personally prefer "Power and Knowledge Production", because "power" helps me see links between everything under "ethics". It also sometimes seems like we do "research ethics" to get our research "approved", and that's not why I read about power and knowledge production. I read about this topic because I want to carefully think about the power I have when I do research, the power my research and that of my colleagues has, and the many other issues that can be thought of in research that involve power. I want to keep improving my understanding of the implications of my research (and research that I read about) for power—both in terms of the relations of power implicitly included in the research and in the relations of power that could be altered as a result of research. For example, if my research is aiming to ultimately change something about power relations but doesn't actually threaten current power arrangements, that is something to think about (with the help of sources like those listed here) and take action on.

Power and Knowledge Production: Research and Indigenous Peoples

I learned about most of these resources when taking a graduate class with Robin Gray at the University of Toronto called, "Research and Indigenous Peoples". Personally, these sources helped me figure out if I should try to do research that directly involves Indigenous peoples and how I should go about it, if in a given situation I decide that research with Indigenous peoples is something I should do. But these sources go far beyond whether a white settler in Canada should do such research, and none of them are directly about that.

Brayboy, Bryan McKinley Jones. 2005. “Toward a Tribal Critical Race Theory in Education.” The Urban Review 37(5):425–46. doi: 10.1007/s11256-005-0018-y.

Christen, Kimberly, and Jane Anderson. 2019. “Toward Slow Archives.” Archival Science 19(2):87–116. doi: 10.1007/s10502-019-09307-x.

Cole. 2004. “Trick(Ster)s of Aboriginal Research.” Native Studies Review 15(2):7–30.
Garrison, Nanibaa’ A. 2013. “Genomic Justice for Native Americans: Impact of the Havasupai Case on Genetic Research.” Science, Technology, & Human Values 38(2):201–23. doi: 10.1177/0162243912470009.

Hennessy, Kate, Natasha Lyons, Stephen Loring, Charles Arnold, Mervin Joe, and James Pokiak. 2013. “The Inuvialuit Living History Project: Digital Return as the Forging of Relationships Between Institutions, People, and Data.” Museum Anthropology Review 7(1–2):44–73.

Mihesuah, Devon A., ed. 1998. Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing about American Indians. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

Moreton-Robinson, Aileen. 2006. “Towards a New Research Agenda?: Foucault, Whiteness and Indigenous Sovereignty.” Journal of Sociology 42(4):383–95. doi: 10.1177/1440783306069995.

Nakata, Martin. 1998. “Anthropological Texts and Indigenous Standpoints.” Australian Aboriginal Studies 2:8.

Nakata, Martin. 2007. “The Cultural Interface.” The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 36(S1):7–14. doi: 10.1017/S1326011100004646.

Newsom, Bonnie, Penobscot Nation Intellectual Property Working Group, Julie Woods, and H. Martin Wobst. 2014. Developing Policies and Protocols for the Culturally Sensitive Intellectual Properties of the Penobscot Nation of Maine: Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH). Amherst, MA: Penobscot Nation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage.

O’Brien, Jean M. 2017. “Historical Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies: Touching on the Past, Looking to the Future.” Pp. 15–22 in Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies. New York: Routledge.
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. 2012. [1999] Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. 2nd Edition. London, UK and New York: Zed Books.

Sunseri, Lina. 2007. “Indigenous Voice Matters: Claiming Our Space through Decolonising Research.” Junctures 9:93–106.

TallBear, Kimberly. 2013. Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
* This book discusses many issues about power in research that involves Indigenous peoples. The overall point of the book is to argue that research involving Indigenous peoples' DNA is often portrayed by media and scientists as devoid of power and politics. TallBear demonstrates that, actually, power and politics are deeply interwoven with public and scholarly discussions of Native American DNA. Beyond that main point of the book, the introduction also discusses many other issues in the area of Research and Indigenous Peoples, including a discussion of participatory action research, decolonizing methodologies, and the general topic of the politics of knowledge production.

TallBear, Kim. 2014. “Standing With and Speaking as Faith: A Feminist-Indigenous Approach to Inquiry.” Journal of Research Practice 10(2):1–7.

Tuck, Eve. 2009. “Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities.” Harvard Educational Review 79(3):409–28. doi: 10.17763/haer.79.3.n0016675661t3n15.

Wilson, Shawn. 2008. Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods. Halifax, NS and Winnipeg, MB: Fernwood Publishing.

Younging, Gregory. 2018. Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing by and about Indigenous Peoples. Edmonton, AB: Brush Education.

Younging, Greg. 2010. “Gnaritas Nullius (No One’s Knowledge): The Public Domain and Colonization of Traditional Knowledge.” World Intellectual Property Organization. (This article was also printed in his book, Elements of Indigenous Style).

Presentations (e.g., Conference presentations)

See Talks.

Project Management

Abbott, Andrew. 2014. Digital Paper: A Manual for Research and Writing with Library and Internet Materials. Chicago, IL, USA and London, UK: University of Chicago Press.

• I use the principles from this book daily. I appreciate the distinction, for exmaple, between puzzles and research questions. It is explicitly only for what he calls "library research", i.e., research involving the kind of material you could find at a library (so, not research where you collect your own survey data, interview data, participant observation data, etc.). But the ideas are still clearly also relevant for research when you collect your own data.

Huff, Anne Sigismund. 2009. Designing Research for Publication. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Marshall, Catherine, and Gretchen B. Rossman. 2011. Designing Qualitative Research. 5th ed. Los Angeles, CA: Sage.

Prasad, Monica. 2021. Problem Solving Sociology. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

• I greatly appreciate this book, and use principles from it daily.

Walliman, Nicholas, and Bousmaha Baiche. 2001. Your Research Project: A Step-by-Step Guide for the First-Time Researcher. London ; Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Qualitative Methods

Ethnography

Becker, Howard S., and Blanche Geer. 1957. “Participant Observation and Interviewing: A Comparison.” Hunan Organization 16(3):28–32.

Behar, Ruth. 1996a. “Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart.” Pp. 161–77 in The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology that Breaks your Heart. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

Behar, Ruth. 1996b. “The Vulnerable Observer.” Pp. 1–33 in The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology that Breaks your Heart. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

Bucerius, Sandra. 2013. “Becoming a Trusted ‘Outsider’: Gender, Ethnicity, and Inequality in Ethnographic Research.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 42(6):690–721.

Carpiano, Richard M. 2009. “Come Take a Walk with Me: The ‘Go-Along’ Interview as a Novel Method for Studying the Implications of Place for Health and Well-Being.” Health & Place 15(1):263–72. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2008.05.003.

Contreras, Randol. 2015. “Standpoint Purgatorio.” Pp. 249–65 in Violence at the Urban Margins, edited by J. Auyero, P. Bourgois, and N. Scheper-Hughes. Oxford, UK and New York: Oxford University Press.

Contreras, Randol. 2017. “Recalling to Life: Understanding Stickup Kids through Insider Qualitative Research.” Pp. 155–68 in Qualitative Research in Criminology. Malden, MA, and Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Emerson, Robert M., Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw. 2011. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. 2nd Edition. Chicago, IL and London, UK: Chicago University Press.

Geertz, Clifford. 1973a. “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight.” Pp. 435–74 in The Interpretations of Culture: Selected Essays. New York: Basic Books.

Geertz, Clifford. 1973b. “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture.” Pp. 3–36 in The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays. New York: Basic Books.

Jerolmack, Colin, and Shamus Khan. 2014a. “Talk Is Cheap: Ethnography and the Attitudinal Fallacy.” Sociological Methods & Research 43(2):178–209. doi: 10.1177/0049124114523396.

Jerolmack, Colin, and Shamus Khan. 2014b. “Toward an Understanding of the Relationship Between Accounts and Action.” Sociological Methods & Research 43(2):236–47. doi: 10.1177/0049124114523397.

Katz, Jack. 1997. “Ethnography’s Warrants.” Sociological Methods & Research 25(4):391–423.

Kusenbach, Margarethe. 2003. “Street Phenomenology: The Go-along as Ethnographic Research Tool.” Ethnography 4(3):455–85.

Neto, Pedro Figueiredo. 2019. “Surreptitious Ethnography: Following the Paths of Angolan Refugees and Returnees in the Angola-Zambia Borderlands.” Ethnography 20(1):128–45. doi: 10.1177/1466138117724577.

Okely, Judith. 2007. “Fieldwork Embodied.” Sociological Review 55(1):65–79.

Stacey, Judith. 1988. “Can There Be a Feminist Ethnography?” Women’s Studies International Forum 11(1):21–27.

Thorne, Barrie. 1980. “‘You Still Takin’ Notes?’ Fieldwork and Problems of Informed Consent.” Social Problems 27(3):284–97.

Interviewing

Some of the debates that have happened about interviewing, and also some of the best books for figuring out how to do it.

Brinkmann, Svend, and Steinar Kvale. [2009] 2015. InterViews: Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing. Third Edit. Thousand Oaks, CA, USA and London, UK: Sage Publications. [Has over 14,500 citations on Google Scholar].

DiCicco-Bloom, Barbara, and Benjamin F. Crabtree. 2006. “The Qualitative Research Interview.” Medical Education 40(4):314–21. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2929.2006.02418.x. [Has over 6,000 citations on Google Scholar]

Gerson, Kathleen, and Sarah Damaske. 2021. The Science and Art of Interviewing. New York, NY, USA and Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Holstein, James, and Jaber Gubrium. 2003. Inside Interviewing. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks California 91320 United States of America: SAGE Publications, Inc. [Over 850 citations on Google Scholar]

Hughes, Jason, Kahryn Hughes, Grace Sykes, and Katy Wright. 2020. “Beyond Performative Talk: Critical Observations on the Radical Critique of Reading Interview Data.” International Journal of Social Research Methodology 23(5):547–63. doi: 10.1080/13645579.2020.1766757.

Lamont, Michèle, and Ann Swidler. 2014. “Methodological Pluralism and the Possibilities and Limits of Interviewing.” Qualitative Sociology 37(2):153–71. doi: 10.1007/s11133-014-9274-z. [Over 470 citations on Google Scholar]

Lareau, Annette. 2021. Listening to People: A Practical Guide to Interviewing, Participant Observation, Data Analysis, and Writing It All Up. Chicago ; London: The University of Chicago Press.

Martin, John Levi. 2010. “Life’s a Beach but You’re an Ant, and Other Unwelcome News for the Sociology of Culture.” Poetics 38(2):229–44. doi: 10.1016/j.poetic.2009.11.004. [Has over 140 citations on Google Scholar. From what I've seen, most people don't agree with this article, but some people do hold these views].

Pugh, Allison J. 2013. “What Good Are Interviews for Thinking about Culture? Demystifying Interpretive Analysis.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology 1(1):42–68. doi: 10.1057/ajcs.2012.4.

Seidman, Irving. 2006. Interviewing as Qualitative Research: A Guide for Researchers in Education and the Social Sciences. 3rd ed. New York: Teachers College Press. [Has over 28,000 citations on Google Scholar]

Tavory, Iddo. 2020. “Interviews and Inference: Making Sense of Interview Data in Qualitative Research.” Qualitative Sociology 43(4):449–65. doi: 10.1007/s11133-020-09464-x.

Vaisey, Stephen. 2014. “Is Interviewing Compatible with the Dual-Process Model of Culture?” American Journal of Cultural Sociology 2(1):150–58. doi: 10.1057/ajcs.2013.8. [Has over 70 citations on Google Scholar]

Weiss, Robert S. [1994] 1995. Learning from Strangers: The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies. New York: The Free Press. [Has over 8,000 citations on Google Scholar]

Reading

Abbott, Andrew. 2014. Digital Paper: A Manual for Research and Writing with Library and Internet Materials. Chicago, IL, USA and London, UK: University of Chicago Press.

• He talks about different kinds of reading, and the kind of reading environment that is ideal. For example, he talks about "meditative" reading, as reading that you do in depth, spending several minutes on each page. He also talks about "browsing" and "scanning" as other methods.
  

Adler, Mortimer J., and Charles Van Doren. 1972. How to Read a Book. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.

• This book is a bit antiquated, but still helped me start thinking about the methods behind reading when I was an undergraduate student.
  

Software

Goodnotes

• This is a great app for taking notes on an iPad (with an Apple Pencil), in my view.
  

Omnigraffle.

• This is a vector-graphic creation and mind-mapping program for Mac. The analogue on PC is Microsoft Visio. I use it often to create figures for journal articles and talks and to map ideas. When I use figures from it in conference presentations, they often receive compliments!
  

Ora (for task management) (https://ora.pm).

• This app allows you to track time and plan various projects. The free version is basically complete. I use it daily to track my work time.
  

PDF Expert

• You can make map notes (see my other blog post about that) on this, just as you can on Goodnotes. I use an iPad Pro and an Apple Pencil to do so.
  
• I also use this for PDF reading. It is, in my view, the most effective PDF reading app, on both Mac and iPad.
  

Zotero/Mendeley.

• I use Zotero. I highly recommend university students use one or the other. The main benefit is that you only have to enter the information for a reference once. If you're able to pay for the program, it also means that you can store all of your documents in it. The main benefit of that is you can make folders within the program for various projects, and then you don't have to duplicate the texts when you use them in different projects. The programs allow you to put a single file in many different folders, unlike a typical computer file management system. So it saves space on your hard drive.
  

Talks

Anholt, Robert Rene Henri. 2006. Dazzle ’em with Style: The Art of Oral Scientific Presentation. 2nd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Academic Press.

• He's a biologist, but many general principles can be gleaned from the book if you're a social scientist.

Asher, Joey. 2001. Even a Geek Can Speak: Low-Tech Communications Skills for a High-Tech World. Atlanta, GA: Persuasive Speaker Press.

Donovan, Jeremey. 2012. How to Deliver a TED Talk: Secrets of the World’s Most Inspiring Presentations. North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace.

Teaching

Many of these resources were introduced to me by Kathy Liddle at the University of Toronto.

Adams, Catherine, and Ellen Rose. 2014. “Will I Ever Connect with the Students?” Online Teaching and the Pedagogy of Care.” Phenomenology & Practice 8(1):5–16. doi: 10.29173/pandpr20637.

Atkinson, Maxine P., and Kathleen S. Lowney. 2016. In the Trenches: Teaching and Learning Sociology. First edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Bain, Ken. 2004. What the Best College Teachers Do. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Barkley, Elizabeth F. 2009. Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty. San Francisco, CA, USA: Jossey-Bass.

Barkley, Elizabeth F., and Claire Howell Major. 2018. Interactive Lecturing: A Handbook for College Faculty. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, a Wiley Brand.

Berg, Maggie, and Barbara K. Seeber. 2016. The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy. University of Toronto Press.

Brown, Peter C., Henry L. Roediger, and Mark A. McDaniel. 2014. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning. Cambridge, MA, USA and London, UK: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Carey, Benedict. 2014. How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where, and Why It Happens. First edition. New York: Random House.

Cavanagh, Sarah Rose. 2016. The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion. First edition. Morgantown, West Virginia: West Virginia University Press.

Ciabattari, Teresa, Kathleen S. Lowney, Renee A. Monson, Mary Scheuer Senter, and Jeffrey Chin. 2018. “Linking Sociology Majors to Labor Market Success.” Teaching Sociology 46(3):191–207. doi: 10.1177/0092055X18760691.

Clever, Molly, and Karen S. Miller. 2019. “‘I Understand What They’re Going through’: How Socioeconomic Background Shapes the Student Service-Learning Experience.” Teaching Sociology 47(3):204–18. doi: 10.1177/0092055X19832646.

Davis, Barbara Gross. 2009. Tools for Teaching. 2nd ed. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Freire, Paulo. 2000. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. 30th anniversary ed. New York: Continuum.

Gannon, Kevin M. 2020. Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press.

Harrington, Christine, and Todd Zakrajsek. 2017. Dynamic Lecturing: Research-Based Strategies to Enhance Lecture Effectiveness. First edition. Sterling, Virginia: Stylus Publishing.

Herman, Jennifer H., and Linda Burzotta Nilson, eds. 2018. Creating Engaging Discussions: Strategies for “Avoiding Crickets” in Any Size Classroom and Online. Sterling, Virginia: Stylus Publishing, LLC.

hooks, bell. 1994. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge.

hooks, bell. 2003. Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope. New York, NY, USA and Abington, UK: Routledge.

Joseph, Cheryl. 2017. You’re Hired!: Putting Your Sociology Major to Work. Emerald Publishing Limited.

Kaufman, Peter, and Janine Schipper. 2018. Teaching with Compassion: An Educator’s Oath to Teach from the Heart. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.

Lambert, Stephen E. 2009. Great Jobs for Sociology Majors. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Lore, Nicholas, and Anthony Spadafore. 2008. Now What? The Young Person’s Guide to Choosing the Perfect Career. New York: Fireside.

Mannon, Susan E., and Eileen K. Camfield. 2019. “Sociology Students as Storytellers: What Narrative Sociology and C. Wright Mills Can Teach Us about Writing in the Discipline.” Teaching Sociology 47(3):177–90. doi: 10.1177/0092055X19828802.

Nilson, Linda B. 2010. Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors. San Francisco, CA, USA: Jossey-Bass.
Palmer, Parker J. 2007. The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life. 10th anniversary ed. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Pike, Diane L., Teresa Ciabattari, Melinda Messineo, Renee A. Monson, Rifat A. Salam, Theodore C. Wagenaar, Jeffrey Chin, Susan J. Ferguson, Margaret Weigers Vitullo, Patrick Archer, Maxine P. Atkinson, Jeanne H. Ballantine, Thomas C. Calhoun, Paula England, Rebecca J. Erickson, Andrea N. Hunt, Kathleen S. Lowney, Suzanne B. Maurer, Mary S. Senter, and Stephen Sweet. 2017. The Sociology Major in the Changing Landscape of Higher Education: Curriculum, Careers, and Online Learning. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.

Roberts, Keith A. 1993. “Toward a Sociology of Writing.” Teaching Sociology 21(4):317. doi: 10.2307/1319080.

Schwartz, Harriet L. 2019. Connected Teaching: Relationship, Power, and Mattering in Higher Education. First edition. Sterling, Virginia: Stylus Publishing, LLC.

Sousa, David A., ed. 2010. Mind, Brain, and Education: Neuroscience Implications for the Classroom. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.

Whynacht, Ardath, Emily Arsenault, and Rachael Cooney. n.d. “Abolitionist Pedagogy in the Neoliberal University: Notes on Trauma-Informed Practice, Collaboration, and Confronting the Impossible.” 23.

Willingham, Daniel T. 2009. Why Don’t Students like School? A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions about How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom. 1st ed. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Theory and Data

Different methods for relating theory to data.

Abductive Analysis

Abductive Analysis

Tavory, Iddo, and Stefan Timmermans. 2014. Abductive Analysis: Theorizing Qualitative Research. Chicago, IL, USA and London, UK: Chicago University Press.

Timmermans, Stefan, and Iddo Tavory. 2012. “Theory Construction in Qualitative Research: From Grounded Theory to Abductive Analysis.” Sociological Theory 30(3):167–86. doi: 10.1177/0735275112457914.

Extended Case Method

Burawoy, Michael. 1998. “The Extended Case Method.” Sociological Theory 16(1):4–33.

Grounded Theory

Charmaz, Kathy. 2006. Constructing Grounded Theory. London ; Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Clarke, Adele E. 2005. Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory after the Postmodern Turn. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Corbin, Juliet, and Anselm Strauss. 2008. Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Glaser, Barney G., and Anselm L. Strauss. 2009. The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research. New Brunswick: Aldine.

Strauss, Anselm L. 1987. Qualitative Analysis for Social Scientists. Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press.

Strauss, Anselm L., and Juliet M. Corbin. 1998. Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Extended Case Method

Burawoy, Michael. 1998. “The Extended Case Method.” Sociological Theory 16(1):4–33.

Grounded Theory

Charmaz, Kathy. 2006. Constructing Grounded Theory. London ; Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Clarke, Adele E. 2005. Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory after the Postmodern Turn. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Corbin, Juliet, and Anselm Strauss. 2008. Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Glaser, Barney G., and Anselm L. Strauss. 2009. The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research. New Brunswick: Aldine.

Strauss, Anselm L. 1987. Qualitative Analysis for Social Scientists. Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press.

Strauss, Anselm L., and Juliet M. Corbin. 1998. Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Theoretical Methods

Methods for designing social theories.

Becker, Howard S. 1998. Tricks of the Trade: How to Think About Your Research While You’re Doing It. Chicago, IL, USA and London, UK: The University of Chicago Press.

Martin, John Levi. 2015. Thinking through Theory. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Ragin, Charles C. 2008. Redesigning Social Inquiry: Fuzzy Sets and Beyond. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Stinchcombe, Arthur L. 1987. Constructing Social Theories. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Swedberg, Richard. 2014. The Art of Social Theory. Princeton, NJ and Oxford, UK: Princeton University Press.

Time Management

National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity. 2021 (updated yearly). "SKILL #1: Every Summer Needs a Plan". Accessed October 2021 (https://www.facultydiversity.org/).

• This workshop outlines their strategic planning method (they apply it to every semester, not just the summer). It has become an essential part of how I plan my academic work.
  
• Many universities subscribe to the NCFDD's workshops. I'm able to watch these workshops through my institutional subscription.
  

National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity. 2021 (updated yearly). "SKILL #2: How to Align Your Time with Your Priorities." Accessed October 2021 (https://www.facultydiversity.org/).

• This workshop shows their weekly planning method. I also use this in my set of time management methods (in addition to their "Skill #1").
  

National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity. 2021 (updated yearly). "SKILL #3: How to Develop a Daily Writing Practice." Accessed October 2021 (https://www.facultydiversity.org/).

National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity. 2021 (updated yearly). "SKILL #4: Mastering Academic Time Management." Accessed October 2021 (https://www.facultydiversity.org/).

• Many great additional tips on time management.
  

Twitter Accounts that Post about Academic Methods

@raulpacheco

Writing

Becker, Howard S. 2007. Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish You Rthesis, Book, or Article. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Belcher, Wendy Laura. 2016. Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Bolker, Joan. 1998. Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis. 1st ed. New York: H. Holt.

Dunleavy, Patrick. 2003. Authoring a PhD: How to Plan, Draft, Write, and Finish a Doctoral Thesis or Dissertation. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Eco, Umberto, Caterina Mongiat Farina, and Geoff Farina. 2015. How to Write a Thesis. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

Feak, Christine B., John M. Swales, John M. Swales, and Christine B. Feak. 2009. Telling a Research Story: Writing a Literature Review. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press.

Germano, William. 2016. Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books, Third Edition. University of Chicago Press.

Germano, William P. 2005. From Dissertation to Book. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Graff, Gerald, and Cathy Birkenstein. 2006. They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. New York, NY, USA and London, UK: W. W. Norton & Company.

Hall, Trish. 2019. Writing to Persuade: How to Bring People over to Your Side. First edition. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company.

Harris, Angelique, and Alia R. Tyner-Mullings. 2013. Writing for Emerging Sociologists. Thousand Oaks, CA, USA and London, UK: Sage Publications.

Hart, Chris. 1998. Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination. London: Sage Publications.

King, Stephen. 2000. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. Toronto, ON: Pocket Books.

• This is a mostly a memoir, but content warning: he has struggled with alcoholism, and that struggle is described in great detail here.

Pinker, Steven. 2014. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century. New York: Penguin.

Rosenwasser, David, and Jill Stephen. 2012. Writing Analytically. Boston, MA: Wadsworth.

• This book changed the way I write.

Silvia, Paul J. 2015. Write It Up: Practical Strategies for Writing and Publishing Journal Articles. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
* Some good advice, but you have to take a lot of it with a grain of salt.

Silvia, Paul J. 2019. How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing. Second edition. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

• Basically: set up a writing schedule and write with others.

Strunk, William, and E. B. White. 2000. The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr., With Revisions, an Introduction, and a Chapter on Writing by E.B. White. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

Swales, John. 1990. Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.

Swales, John, and Christine B. Feak. 2010. Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills. 2. ed., Ann Arbor, Mich: Univ. of Michigan Press.

Swales, John M. 2004. Research Genres: Explorations and Applications. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Swales, John M., and Christine B. Feak. 2000. English in Today’s Research World: A Writing Guide. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Swales, John M., Christine B. Feak, and John M. Swales. 2009. Abstracts and the Writing of Abstracts. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Sword, Helen. 2012. Stylish Academic Writing. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Turabian, Kate L. 2007. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers. 7th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Zerubavel, Eviatar. 1999. The Clockwork Muse: A Practical Guide to Writing Theses, Dissertations, and Books. Cambridge, MA, USA: Harvard University Press.

• Another book (like Silvia's How to Write a Lot) that emphasizes the importance of a writing schedule.

Zinsser, William. 2006. On Writing Well. New York, NY, USA: HarperCollins.

Zuckerman, Ezra W. 2017. “On Genre: A Few More Tips to Article-Writers.” Accessed 19 October 2018 from http://mitmgmtfaculty.mit.edu/esivan/reviews_essays/. doi: 10.1086/690762.

• This changed the way I read and write journal articles.