Researching Social Problems

ISBN-13: 9781138091740 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 214 str.

Amir Marvasti; A. Javier Trevino

Opis

This book covers a wide range of contemporary methods for researching social problems and connects these approaches to the broader substance and theories of social problems. Chapters follow a uniform structure, with each offering research examples and a broad description of the related method and its theoretical context.

Spis treści

Foreword: The Splendid Dangers and Worthy Methods of the Social Pathologist  Introduction  1. Survey Research: Asking Questions for Assessing Social Problems  2. Research Interviews: Measuring, Feeling, and Constructing Social Problems  3. Narrative Inquiry: Stories and Storytellers of Social Problems  4. Institutional Ethnography: A Mode of Inquiry and a Strategy for Change  5. Participatory Action Research: Re-imagining the Study and Transformation of Social Problems  6. Autoethnography as a Methodology in Researching Social Problems  7. Considering Materiality: The Utility of Actor-Network Theory to Study Social Problems  8. Systematic Experimentation on Social Problems  9. Visual Research Methods: Integrating Images in the Study of Social Problems  10. The Ethics of the Study of Social Problems