Russell Hitchings, Alan Latham

How to Study Social Life (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This text is both a practical account of the research process, and an invitation to think more deeply and reflexively about the imperfect, multifaceted nature of social research itself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529616354
• Artikelnr.: 72257787

Autorenporträt

Russell Hitchings was a Professor of Human Geography at University College London. His research focused on everyday practice, energy consumption and nature experience and he had been lucky to study these themes in a variety of contexts all around the world. He was particularly interested in how we use talk to examine these topics, having done a lot interviewing about them. He also used focus groups, solicited diaries, observation, and survey methods when that seemed like a good idea. Originally from South Wales, he spent many years at UCL, London.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction: What is the point of this book and how to use it
Chapter 2. Warrants: Starting with what you want your study to achieve
Chapter 3. Observing: On learning to learn from different social scenes
Chapter 4. Taking part: Considering the benefits of getting involved
ourselves
Chapter 5. Staging talk: How to do and imagine interviews
Chapter 6. Engaging people: Seeing social research as a relationship
Chapter 7. Asking questions: Exploring a basic act that features in many
methods
Chapter 8. Playing with words: Strategies for seeing and exploring patterns
Chapter 9. Looking at pictures: Ways of getting drawn into social worlds
Chapter 10. Choosing: How thinking about cases and samples can make for
innovative projects
Chapter 11. Writing: How to present the material we've collected