Exploring Clinical Methods for Social Research
1st Edition
Published on 27. June 1985
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-8039-2432-1 (ISBN)
Description
The methods selected and used to conduct research often become an expression of the conflicting interests that are being served by the study. This book focuses on issues such as why we do research, how we create knowledge, and how the research process brings about change. The introduction to the book discusses the historical, conceptual, and personal interests being served. There are four sections: Clinical Issues, Clinical Understanding, Clinical Involvement, and Clinical Methods. 'Clinical' is regularly used to refer to an approach to the study of social systems, a method with its own characterists and its own demands. Each chapter is compiled by a different researcher, and contains many examples.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8039-2432-1 (9780803924321)
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Content
Introduction - Kenwyn K Smith and David N Berg
PART ONE: CLINICAL ISSUES
The Clinical Demands of Research Methods - David N Berg and Kenwyn K Smith
Taking Our Selves Seriously as Researchers - Clayton P Alderfer
The Hermeneutic Turn and the Single Case Study in Psychoanalysis - Marshall Edelson
Commentary
PART TWO: CLINICAL UNDERSTANDING
Action Usable Knowledge - Cortlandt Cammann
Epistemological Problems in Researching Human Relationships - Kenwyn K Smith
Looking at Research Ideas as Behavioral Data - Stewart E Perry
Feminist Distrust - Shulamit Reinharz
Problems of Context and Content in Sociological Work
What Is Clinical Method? - Rodney L Lowman
Commentary
PART THREE: CLINICAL INVOLVEMENT
On Seeking One's Own Clinical Voice - J Richard Hackman
A Personal Account
Anxiety in Research Relationships - David N Berg
Self-Full Research - Philip H Mirvis and Meryl Reis Louis
Working Through the Self as Instrument in Organizational Research
On the Researcher's Group Memberships - Kathy E Kram
Virtuous Subjectivity - Alan Peshkin
In the Participant-Observer's I's
Commentary
PART FOUR: CLINICAL METHODS
Reconstructing an Organization's History - Valerie M Simmons
Systematic Distortion in Retrospective Data
History in the Here and Now - Jonathon H Gilette
The Development of a Historical Perspective
Using Participant-Observation to Construct a Life History - Helen Swick Perry
On Studying Emotionally Hot Topics - Robert I Sutton and Susan J Schurman
Lessons from an Investigation of Organizational Death
Assessing Local Causality in Qualitative Research - A Michael Huberman and Matthew B Miles
Commentary
PART ONE: CLINICAL ISSUES
The Clinical Demands of Research Methods - David N Berg and Kenwyn K Smith
Taking Our Selves Seriously as Researchers - Clayton P Alderfer
The Hermeneutic Turn and the Single Case Study in Psychoanalysis - Marshall Edelson
Commentary
PART TWO: CLINICAL UNDERSTANDING
Action Usable Knowledge - Cortlandt Cammann
Epistemological Problems in Researching Human Relationships - Kenwyn K Smith
Looking at Research Ideas as Behavioral Data - Stewart E Perry
Feminist Distrust - Shulamit Reinharz
Problems of Context and Content in Sociological Work
What Is Clinical Method? - Rodney L Lowman
Commentary
PART THREE: CLINICAL INVOLVEMENT
On Seeking One's Own Clinical Voice - J Richard Hackman
A Personal Account
Anxiety in Research Relationships - David N Berg
Self-Full Research - Philip H Mirvis and Meryl Reis Louis
Working Through the Self as Instrument in Organizational Research
On the Researcher's Group Memberships - Kathy E Kram
Virtuous Subjectivity - Alan Peshkin
In the Participant-Observer's I's
Commentary
PART FOUR: CLINICAL METHODS
Reconstructing an Organization's History - Valerie M Simmons
Systematic Distortion in Retrospective Data
History in the Here and Now - Jonathon H Gilette
The Development of a Historical Perspective
Using Participant-Observation to Construct a Life History - Helen Swick Perry
On Studying Emotionally Hot Topics - Robert I Sutton and Susan J Schurman
Lessons from an Investigation of Organizational Death
Assessing Local Causality in Qualitative Research - A Michael Huberman and Matthew B Miles
Commentary