Martyn Hammersley (ed.)

Social Research

Philosophy, Politics and Practice
Herausgeber: Hammersley, Martyn

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This critical introduction to the principles of social and educational research draws together a key set of readings which offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of values and practice in social research. Issues explored include: the relationship between quantitative and qualitative methods; positivism and the role of the natural sciences as a model for social research; the purposes of research - knowledge or the transformation of the social world; issues of race, gender and power in social research; the politics and ethics of data collection; and the validity and relevance of social research. Social Research is a set book for The Open University course DEH313 Principles of Social and Educational Research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications UK
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780803988057
• ISBN-10: 0803988052
• Artikelnr.: 21589666

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART ONE: PHILOSOPHY An Overall View of Positivism - Leszek Kolakowski Two Traditions - G H von Wright Qualitative Research and Psychological Theorizing - Karen L Henwood and Nick F Pidgeon The Elements of Critical Social Science - Brian Fay Traditions in Documentary Analysis - Victor Jupp and Clive Norris PART TWO: POLITICS Decolonializing Applied Social Sciences - Rodolfo Stavenhagen Towards a Methodology for Feminist Research - Maria Mies Intervention in New Social Movements - Elim Papadakis A Political Classification of Evaluation Studies in Education - Barry MacDonald The Value of Quantitative Methodology for Feminist Research - Toby Epstein Jayaratne `Race
and Statistics - Waqar I U Ahmad and Trevor A Sheldon PART THREE: PRACTICE Research Analysis of Administrative Records - Catherine Hakim How Official Statistics are Produced - Government Statisticians
Collective Views from the Inside `It
s Great to Have Someone to Talk tö - Janet Finch Ethics and Politics of Interviewing Women Observation and the Police - Maurice Punch The Research Experience Increasing the Generalizability of Qualitative Research - Janet Ward Schofield The Obviousness of Social and Educational Research Results - N L Gage

Rezensionen

`An important guide to current issues and debates in social research. Martyn Hammersley has assembled a useful range of source material for the beginning student' - Robert Burgess, University of Warwick `All the readings are clear and incisive and have been well chosen as exemplars of a particular tradition or type of critique. Since they can be studied individually as well as collectively, this book will be invaluable for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate methods courses' - Journal of Social Policy `Between them, the papers included in this book cover an impressive range of issues central to social research. The editor has succeeded in pulling together papers from a wide range of sources... and making them available in an easily-accessible form. The book could serve as a useful introduction to the field for undergraduate students, or as eye-opening background reading for research practitioners who have not had formal training in the philosophy of social investigation.' - ESRC Data Archive Bulletin `The book accomplishes its purpose of illuminating the 'profound differences in approach' and should help the users of social research as well as practitioners.' - Educational Research