this book is not adequate textbook for undergraduate methodology class but for refernce to qualitative method. this book highlight the advantage, logic of qualitative method against quantatative method. unlike the title, this book does not deal with survey research but field research. survey is refered to when it's needed to explain field research thou it's not that unfair for survey is well explained away by most methodology textbook. like the subject, this book starts with somewhat philosophically from the debate on positivism but like most textbook thesedays the line is not that hostile to survey. the author argues they are different not false or true over the other. the merit of this book is that the advantage and disadvantage of field research are explained succinctly and clearly with concrete example from real research works. well written one