Researching Social Problems

Herausgeber: Marvasti, Amir; Treviño, A. Javier

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book covers a wide range of contemporary methods for researching social problems and connects these approaches to the broader substance and theories of social problems. Expository and discursive in approach, chapters follow a uniform structure, with each offering research examples and a broad description of the related method and its theoretical context, together with a "how-to" guide for applying that method using substantive examples from the field of social problems. For every method explored, there is a research example that fully reviews and illustrates the application of the particular method, before giving a full assessment of the method's strengths and weaknesses and latest developments. With chapters exploring survey interviews, in-depth interviews, narrative inquiry, institutional ethnography, participatory action research, auto-ethnography, Actor-Network Theory, experimental research, visual research methods, and research ethics, Researching Social Problems will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and politics working in the fields of research methods and social problems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9781138091740
• ISBN-10: 113809174X
• Artikelnr.: 57110860

Autorenporträt

Amir Marvasti is Associate Professor of Sociology at Penn State Altoona, USA. His books on the pedagogy of research include: Qualitative Research in Sociology; Doing Qualitative Research: A Comprehensive Guide (with David Silverman); and The Sage Handbook of Interview Research: The Complexity of the Craft (2nd edition, with Jaber F. Gubrium, James Holstein, and Karyn D. McKinney). A. Javier Treviño is Professor of Sociology at Wheaton College, Massachusetts, USA. He has served as president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and has published numerous books including, Investigating Social Problems (2nd edition); The Cambridge Handbook of Social Problems (2 volumes); and Service Sociology and Academic Engagement in Social Problems.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: The Splendid Dangers and Worthy Methods of the Social Pathologist
Introduction 1. Survey Research: Asking Questions for Assessing Social
Problems 2. Research Interviews: Measuring, Feeling, and Constructing
Social Problems 3. Narrative Inquiry: Stories and Storytellers of Social
Problems 4. Institutional Ethnography: A Mode of Inquiry and a Strategy for
Change 5. Participatory Action Research: Re-imagining the Study and
Transformation of Social Problems 6. Autoethnography as a Methodology in
Researching Social Problems 7. Considering Materiality: The Utility of
Actor-Network Theory to Study Social Problems 8. Systematic Experimentation
on Social Problems 9. Visual Research Methods: Integrating Images in the
Study of Social Problems 10. The Ethics of the Study of Social Problems