Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It

education-and-formation

• students learned it by hanging around him and learning to use his tricks, the way apprentices learn craft skills by watching journeymen

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• I have recalled the way I was taught, the sociologists from whom I learned what sociological work could be and what a sociological life could be

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• it wasn't until well into the nineteenth century that the ordinary American really needed such skills — they are socially valued skills now, built into our everyday operations

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mind-and-cognition

• The underlying picture of the world is always capable of identification in the form of a set of premises — the unavoidable task of genuine methodological treatment

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• I asked myself: 'What is left over if we subtract from the idea of a collection the fact that this collector has a large number of objects?'

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work-as-meaning

• these unskilled laborers actually had some very important skills and an unusual conjuncture of circumstances had made those skills more valuable to employers

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