Methodological Imaginations
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 1. April 1996
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-333-63091-4 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of papers from the 1993 British Sociological Association conference, 'Research Imaginations', held at the University of Essex, brings together essays which look creatively and imaginatively at issues of research methodology in sociology. Some of the papers revisit and redefine existing techniques of data collection, such as those used in the Mass Observation project of the 1930s, the classic community study, diaries, in-depth interviews and visual materials like photographs and paintings; some examine the need for reflexivity in the research process; others confront important epistemological issues.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
tables, index
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 141 mm
Weight
403 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-63091-4 (9780333630914)
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Content
Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - Surrealism, Mass-Observation and Researching Imagination; J.Shaw - Imagining the Community: Some Reflections on the Community Study as a Method; G.Payne - Researching Moving Targets: Using Diaries to Explore Supply Teachers' Lives; M.Morrison & S.Galloway - Uncovering Key Aspects of Experience: The Use of In-Depth Interviews in a Study of Women Returners to Education; S.Smith - Every Picture 'Tells a Story': Uses of the Visual in Sociological Research; B.Harrison - Visual Imagery and the Iconography of the Social World: Some Considerations of History, Art and Problems for Sociological Research; A.Pryce - Ethnography, Ethnicity and Work: Unpacking the West Midlands Clothing Industry; M.Ram - Emotional Labour and Qualitative Research: How I Learned not to Laugh or Cry in the Field; K.Ramsay - The Research Process: Context, Autonomy and Audience; G.Cooper & S.Woolgar - Gender, Poet and Epistemology: Can Men know Feminist Truths?; A.M.Liddle - Doing What Comes Naturally?: Standpoint Epistemology, Critical Social Research and the Politics of Identity; P.Connolly - Index