Somewhere underneath the prose of social science lies some human contact. Before the clatter of the typewriter begins, some person (a social science researcher) collaborates with another person (variously called subject, respondent, or informant) to create a social relationship within which an exchange of information occurs (Agar, 1980: 1).
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