Social Science Methods used in a Study of Prostitutes in the Gambia
The need for field techniques to provide rapid and detailed data on complex social and behavioural phenomena has been given considerable impetus with the advent of HIV/AIDS. It has highlighted the contrasting approaches of epidemiology and the social sciences. Traditionally, epidemiologists study a limited number of variables in large samples to provide statistical evidence of relationships. The parameters of the study are firmly established before data collection begins. But interest has grown in aspects of the relationship between health and behaviour not amenable to so strict a format of scientific investigation. Anthropologists, in particular, have ...
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