"This book represents the best of Michael Agar's visionary work in the social sciences - how to make a research question, and answer it with the human in social science. With his usual uncompromising clarity and dry with, Agar examines why human social science is still very definitely a science, and what that means in practice for researchers. With a new foreword by (TBC) celebrating Agar's enormous contribution to the methodology, The Lively Science is for all social science researchers, students and qualitative methodologists who believe in putting the 'social' back into social science"--
