This book attempts to steer a course between a simple anecdotal account of research studies with their technical details, and a set of broad generalization about research methodology. Its aim is to make both the elements of basic logic and the research procedures of modern sociology understandable at the undergraduate level. It has also been working assumption of our teaching that no amoung of lecture material, summarizing in general propositions what has been learned about research techniques, can communicate to the student the meaning of research or excite in him any of the fascination which the social process possesses.