Challenge & Innovation

ISBN-13: 9781138468221 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Mary Boulton

Opis

The HIV/AIDS epidemic has presented challenges to social researchers to provide detailed and accurate information about "sensitive" behaviour amongst "hidden" populations. This volume draws together examples of innovative research which has been conducted in the field of HIV/AIDS.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 The Methodological Imagination, Mary Boulton; Part 1 Research Design, Theoretical Frameworks and the Research Question; Chapter 2 Using Longitudinal Cohort-Sequential Designs to Study Changes in Sexual Behaviour, Glynis M. Breakwell, Chris R. Fife-Schaw; Chapter 3 Monitoring Behavioural Change in the Population: A Continuous Data Collection Approach, David McQueen, Stefano Carnpostrini; Chapter 4 Acts, Sessions and Individuals: A Model for Analysing Sexual Behaviour, Peter Davies; Chapter 5 Analysing Naturally-Occurring Data on AIDS Counselling: Some Methodological and Practical Issues, David Silverman; Part 2 Samples and Populations; Chapter 6 Some Methodological and Practical Implications of Employing Drug Users as Indigenous Fieldworkers, Robert Power; Chapter 7 How Many Prostitutes? Epidemiology out of Ethnography, Neil McKeganey, Marina Barnard, Michael Bloor; Part 3 Methods of Data Collection; Chapter 8 Diaries and Sexual Behaviour: The Use of Sexual Diaries as Method and Substance in Researching Gay Men’s Response to HIV/AIDS, Anthony P.M. Coxon; Chapter 9 Social Science Methods used in a Study of Prostitutes in the Gambia, Helen Pickering; Chapter 10 Focus Groups: Method or Madness?, Jenny Kitzinger; Part 4 Evaluating Health Education Interventions; Chapter 11 Theory, Utility and Stakeholders: Methodological Issues in Evaluating a Community Project on HIV/AIDS, Ian S. Peers, Margaret Johnston; Chapter 12 Assessing AIDS Preventive Strategies in Europe: Lessons for Evaluative Research, Kaye Wellings; Part 5 A Feminist Approach to Social Research HIV/AIDS; Chapter 13 Methodological Issues in Researching Young Women’s Sexuality, Janet Holland, Caroline Ramazanoglu, Sue Scott, Sue Sharpe, Rachel Thomson; Part 6 Looking Forward; Chapter 14 Towards the Mainstreaming of HIV/AIDS Research, Mildred Blaxter;

O autorze

Boulton, Mary