George McKenzie, Jane Powell, Robin Usher

Understanding Social Research

Perspectives on Methodology and Practice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In 1991 the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) published Postgraduate Training Guidelines. Throughout the document emphasis was placed on the need for universities to make postgraduate research students aware of the methodological issues that affect their work. This book explores the relationship between knowledge, methodology and research practice across the broad spectrum of the social sciences, in language that is accessible to researchers at all levels of their research careers. The book explores the diversity of practice and methodology, and suggests that this diversity and variety of methodology and disciplinary focus are signs of the sophistication and complexity of the processes of social research

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780750707213
• ISBN-10: 0750707216
• Artikelnr.: 21368273

Autorenporträt

McKenzie, George; Powell, Jane; Usher, Robin

Inhaltsangabe

The age of reason or the age of innocence?. Part 1 The nature of the inquiry: telling a story about research and researcher story telling
challenging the power of rationality
becoming economical with politics
family behaviour and the economic method. Part 2 The nature of disciplines: research with discipline of information systems
nursing research - social science?
the case for research into practice
deconstructing statistical questions. Part 3 Research practice: researching social work and social care policies
qualitative approaches to data collection and analysis
grounded theory - its basis, rationale and procedures
action research in information systems
issues in participant observation
enigma variations - uncertainty in social and economic research.