Diagramming the Social: Relational Method in Research

ISBN-13: 9780367192556 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 188 str.

Russell Dudley-Smith; Natasha Whiteman

Opis

This book challenges the hyper-proliferation of concepts in modern social research, presenting a distinctive methodological response based on the exploration of diagrammatic relational spaces, designed to capture social process in a way that resists reductive categories, while producing powerful analyses.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The sorcerer’s apprentice syndrome  2. Diagrams as metaphors of containment  3. At the crossroads: The struggle to escape categorical diagramming  4. Relational diagramming  5. Ignorance vs. knowledge in the study of gender and technology  6. Diagramming relational research: Disentangling relationality from realism  Conclusion