Preface; Introduction; What is a Problem?; Four Approaches; Developing Your Capacity to Formulate Research Problems; Problem For Whom?; A Tale of Two Camps; So What?; Scientific Conformity; The Privilege of Formulating Problems; Your Interests; Why Engage in Formulating Problems?; The Gap Approach; Choice of Topic and Literature Review; Presenting the Literature; Empty For a Reason?; Problems and Challenges in the Gap Approach; The Grounded Approach; Grounded Theory; Methods For Working From the Ground Up; Problems and Challenges in the Grounded Approach; The Mystery Approach; Detecting Mysteries; Creating Mysteries; Problems and Challenges in the Mystery Approach; The Actor Approach; Social Science and Society; Everyday Problems and Other Problems; Toward Phronesic Social Sciences; Four Phronesic Questions; A More Modest Actor Approach; Problems and Challenges in the Actor Approach; The Role of the Problem Formulation in a Thesis; Problem and Process; The Hourglass and the U-Model; Problems and Answers; Shuffle and Deal; References; Index.