Martin J. Packer

Science of Qualitative Research (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This updated and expanded edition is a unique examination of qualitative research in the social sciences, raising and answering the question of why we do this kind of investigation. Rather than providing instructions on how to conduct qualitative research, The Science of Qualitative Research explores the multiple roots of qualitative research - including phenomenology, hermeneutics, and critical theory - in order to diagnose the current state of the field and recommend an alternative. The author argues that much qualitative research today uses the mind-world dualism that is typical of traditional experimental investigation, and recommends that instead we focus on constitution: the relationship of mutual formation between a form of life and its members. Michel Foucault's program for 'a history ontology of ourselves' provides the basis for this fresh approach. The new edition features updated chapters, and a brand new chapter which offers a discussion on how to put into practice Foucault's concept.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108265782
• Artikelnr.: 50403746

Autorenporträt

Martin Packer is Professor of Psychology at the University of San Buenaventura, in Colombia. He has taught at the Universidad de los Andes, Columbia, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Michigan, and Duquesne University, Pennsylvania. His research has explored many aspects of children's development, in social and cultural context. Packer is co-editor of Entering the Circle: Hermeneutic Investigation in Psychology (1989, with Ritch Addison) and Cultural and Critical Perspectives on Human Development (2001, with Mark Tappan) and author of The Structure of Moral Action, of Changing Classes: School Reform and the New Economy (1985), and of Child Development: Understanding a Cultural Perspective (2017). He was one of the founding co-editors of the journal Qualitative Research in Psychology and has published articles in American Psychologist, Educational Psychologist, and Mind, Culture and Activity.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Objective Study of Subjectivity: 1. What is science?
2. The qualitative research interview
3. The analysis of qualitative interviews
4. Hermeneutics and the project for a human science
5. Qualitative analysis reconsidered
Part II. Ethnographic Fieldwork - the Focus on Constitution: 6. Calls for interpretive social science
7. Dualism and constitution: the social construction of reality
8. Constitution as ontological
9. The crisis in ethnography
10. Studying ontological work
Part III. Inquiry with an Emancipatory Interest: 11. Qualitative research as critical inquiry
12. Emancipatory inquiry as rational reconstruction
13. Social science as participant objectification
14. Archaeology, genealogy, ethics
15. A historical ontology of ourselves
16. The concrete investigation of constitution.

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Part I. The Objective Study of Subjectivity: 1. What is science?; 2. The qualitative research interview; 3. The analysis of qualitative interviews; 4. Hermeneutics and the project for a human science; 5. Qualitative analysis reconsidered; Part II. Ethnographic Fieldwork - the Focus on Constitution: 6. Calls for interpretive social science; 7. Dualism and constitution: the social construction of reality; 8. Constitution as ontological; 9. The crisis in ethnography; 10. Studying ontological work; Part III. Inquiry with an Emancipatory Interest: 11. Qualitative research as critical inquiry; 12. Emancipatory inquiry as rational reconstruction; 13. Social science as participant objectification; 14. Archaeology, genealogy, ethics; 15. A historical ontology of ourselves; 16. The concrete investigation of constitution.