Sociological Readings and Re-readings (1996)
Sociological Readings and Re-readings (1996)

Author: Paul Atkinson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1351202219

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Published in 1996, this book comprises a number of essays by Paul Atkinson in which he reflects on processes of reading and writing in the social sciences. Topics covered include: ethnographers’ ‘confessions’, an analysis of the style of Erving Goffman, a reflection of his own experiences of re-reading work, and a discussion of the challenges of reading an alien discipline. This book was originally published as part of the Cardiff Papers in Qualitative Research series edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont and Amanda Coffey. The series publishes original sociological research that reflects the tradition of qualitative and ethnographic inquiry developed at Cardiff. The series includes monographs reporting on empirical research, edited collections focussing on particular themes, and texts discussing methodological developments and issues.

Narrative – State of the Art
Narrative – State of the Art

Author: Michael Bamberg

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2007-03-14

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 9027292981

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Narrative – State of the Art which was originally published as a Special Issue of Narrative Inquiry 16:1 (2006) is edited by Michael Bamberg and contains 24 chapters (with a brief introduction by the editor) that look back and take stock of developments in narrative theorizing and empirical work with narratives. The attempt has been made to bring together researchers from different disciplines, with very different concerns, and have them express their conceptions of the current state of the art from their perspectives. Looking back and taking stock, this volume further attempts to begin to deliver answers to the questions (i) What was it that made the original turn to narrative so successful? (ii) What has been accomplished over the last 40 years of narrative inquiry? (iii) What are the future directions for narrative inquiry? The contributions to this volume are deliberately kept short so that the readers can browse through them and get a feel about the diversity of current narrative theorizing and emerging new trends in narrative research. It is the ultimate aim of this edited volume to stir up discussions and dialogue among narrative researchers across these disciplines and to widen and open up the territory of narrative inquiry to new and innovative work.

The Limitations of Social Research
The Limitations of Social Research

Author: M.D. Shipman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 131788373X

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'Does the evidence reflect the reality under investigation?' This is just one of the important questions Marten Shipman asks in the fourth edition of his highly successful book, The Limitations of Social Research. Substantially revised and up-dated it probes not only the technical stages of research, but also its assumptions, procedures and dissemination.

Inside Interviewing
Inside Interviewing

Author: James Holstein

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2003-03-21

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9780761928515

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Inside Interviewing highlights the fluctuating and diverse moral worlds put into place during interview research when gender, race, culture and other subject positions are brought narratively to the foreground. It explores the 'facts', thoughts, feelings and perspectives of respondents and how this impacts on the research process.

Postcolonial Reconstruction: A Sociological Reading of Octavio Paz
Postcolonial Reconstruction: A Sociological Reading of Octavio Paz

Author: Oliver Kozlarek

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-08-23

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 331944302X

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This book presents a close reading of the work of the Mexican writer and Nobel Prize Laureate, Octavio Paz. It does so from the specific perspective of sociology and the more general perspective of the social sciences. The book identifies opportunities for relating Paz’ sociological ideas to contemporary debates, arguing that Paz’ sociology is linked very closely to his assessment of what could be called the post-colonial condition that Mexico has been experiencing. The book thus advances the understanding of the differences between post-colonial experiences in Latin America and those of other areas of the world. In addition to revealing Paz’ sociology, the book focuses on Modernity and examines Paz’ critique of Modernity and his “project of Modernity”. It shows that a close examination of the works of Octavio Paz helps redefine Modernity from a Latin American perspective as an experience in which the global and local are intertwined, and helps to point in the direction of a new kind of humanism.

Flexibility and Lifelong Learning
Flexibility and Lifelong Learning

Author: Katherine Nicoll

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-09-27

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1134192401

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This book seeks to develop different approaches to policy analysis through a discursive and rhetorical engagement with the themes of flexibility and lifelong learning.

Feminism and the Classroom Teacher
Feminism and the Classroom Teacher

Author: Amanda Coffey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1135711291

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Combining feminist theory and empirical material, drawing on feminist writing and their own research experience, the authors provide an interpretation of teachers and their teaching.

Handbook of Interview Research
Handbook of Interview Research

Author: Jaber F. Gubrium

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 1002

ISBN-13: 9780761919513

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Aimed at professionals in market research and journalism as well as researchers, academics and students, this handbook is both an encyclopedia providing discussions of methodological issues and a story of a particular tale of interviewing.

Qualitative Research and Hypermedia
Qualitative Research and Hypermedia

Author: Bella Dicks

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2005-10-14

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1847877095

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Digital culture and digital technologies have rapidly become unavoidable and essential forms of social experience and communication in our emerging globalised society. If we want to attempt to analyse and understand our technology-saturated society, and all its new media, then we must also develop research methods and forms of analysis that can accommodate and exploit digital culture and digital technologies. This important new methods text sets out to equip qualitative researchers with the tools necessary to conduct ethnography in the age of email and the internet. It will investigate how digital technologies potentially transform the ways in which we do research. This text also introduces the reader to new emerging methods that utilise new technologies and explains how to conduct data collection, analysis and representation using new technologies and `hypermedia′. Essential reading for any student or researcher interested in qualitative research in an age of hypermedia, this text: - explains how digital technology impacts on social research; - investigates how digital technology has reshaped the field of social research; - consider the implications of bringing multimedia into the forefront of qualitative research; - suggests new ways of observing and documenting a `technologised′ and design-rich society; - enables the reader to use new technologies to handle and represent qualitative data; - unpacks the theoretical implications of writing and researching for the electronic screen