
Methodological Imaginations
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 1. April 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVIII, 204 pages
978-0-333-63092-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book brings together a collection of essays which look creatively and imaginatively at issues of research methods and methodology in sociology. Some papers critically revisit and redefine techniques such as the classic community study, the use of diaries, photography and art, others examine the need for reflexivity in the research process and the epistemological issues arising from being a researcher in administrative and political contexts. The diversity of research approaches discussed in this reader should make it an important contribution to research methods teaching for undergraduate and graduate students of sociology.
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Series
Edition
1996 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
XVIII, 204 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-63092-1 (9780333630921)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-24547-5
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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