Off the top of my head, Rosenthal & Rosnow, Essentials of Behavioral
Research: Methods and Data Analysis, does a nice job of stressing the
importance of descriptive research. Second edition came out in '91.
I can give you a complete reference if you're interested. Just to
give you a flavor (I qui
Hi, David. The anthropologists Ryles and Geertz (e.g.,The Interpretation of
Cultures, 1973) speak of "thick description" in the social sciences, and
this may be a good place to start. Within psychotherapy research, my own
field of descriptive familiarity, Elliott among others (Elliott, R. (1984).
