Defining the principles and practices of walking as critical pedagogy, this book engages with social questions and challenges related to understandings of the Anthropocene.Through a series of chapters that operationalize walking as a form o...Loe edasi...
Defining the principles and practices of walking as critical pedagogy, this book engages with social questions and challenges related to understandings of the Anthropocene.Through a series of chapters that operationalize walking as a form o...Loe edasi...
Challenging the static view of the respondent that characterizes standardized research interviews, Interviews as Activated Storytelling demonstrates through a series of case studies that interviews are interactional, meaning-making processe...Loe edasi...
Challenging the sanitized view of participants in standardized surveys, Interviews as Activated Storytelling contends that interviewing is a meaning-making process producing useful but context-sensitive knowledge. Through a series of case s...Loe edasi...
Behind the Scenes in Social Research discusses the informal, adaptive, real-life process of doing social science research. It complements the material in standard methods texts that describe the basics - how to choose topics, ways...Loe edasi...
Based upon in depth interviews with experienced researchers, as well as the author’s extensive research experiences, this book explores two themes: the pragmatic matters that can determine the choice of research topic and the flow of the research,...Loe edasi...
Participatory Case Study Work shows academic co-researchers how to adapt and implement their methods so that data collection and analysis is authentically participatory. At the heart of this text is advocating a participatory approach to...Loe edasi...
This book extends debates in the field of biographical research, arguing that causal explanations are not at odds with biographical research and that biographical research is in fact a valuable tool for explaining why things in social and personal...Loe edasi...
This book addresses dilemmas that social researchers may face as a result of silences, neglected feelings, and blind-spots in their research, considering the ways in which omissions or silences may prove essential for developing new and interestin...Loe edasi...
This book addresses wide-ranging dilemmas that social researchers may face as a result of silences, neglected feelings, and blind-spots in their research. In every research endeavour, thoughts, intuitions, biases, feelings or sensations may be left...Loe edasi...
This book offers an account of contemplative reflection in qualitative social research, focusing on the experiences of the researcher and the means by which the researcher’s basic assumptions can be analysed and bracketed, so as to shed light on t...Loe edasi...
Focussing on the phases of qualitative research which precede and follow fieldwork – design, analysis, and textualization – this book offers new theoretical tools to tackle one of the most common criticisms advanced against qualitative research: i...Loe edasi...
Seeking to increasing the social awareness of citizens, institutions, and corporations with regard the risks presented by the acritical use of algorithms in decision-making, this book explains the rationale and the methods of algorithm audit. Interd...Loe edasi...
This book provides new insights into contemporary betting shops, with a particular focus on the manner in which losing bets are dealt with by customers. Drawing on research undertaken in Ireland, it demonstrates that customers tend to shift respon...Loe edasi...
Developed in response to the theoretically driven mainstream sociology, institutional ethnography starts from people’s everyday experiences, and works from there to discover how the social is organized. Starting from experience is a central step i...Loe edasi...
This book is about going beyond dichotomy. The research literature in social sciences is full of apparent dichotomies such as the dichotomy between: qualitative and quantitative approaches; reality and multiple-realities; ontology and epistemo...Loe edasi...
This creative and original book develops a framework for situated writing as theory and method and presents a trilogy of untimely academic novellas as exemplars of the uses of situated writing. ...Loe edasi...
Participatory Case Study Work shows academic co-researchers how to adapt and implement their methods so that data collection and analysis is authentically participatory. At the heart of this text is advocating a participatory approach to...Loe edasi...
This book provides a means of comprehensively grounding and considering the epistemological and philosophical underpinnings of practice-based research epistemologies. By introducing readers to the diverse array of methodological tools and concepts...Loe edasi...
This book provides a means of comprehensively grounding and considering the epistemological and philosophical underpinnings of practice-based research epistemologies. Introducing readers to the diverse array of methodological tools and concepts that...Loe edasi...
