Inventive Methods: The Happening of the Social

ISBN-13: 9780415574815 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 274 str.

Celia Lury

Opis

This volume proposes a set of new approaches for the empirical investigation of the contemporary world. Building on the increasing importance of methodologies that cut across disciplines, it explains the utility for social and cultural research of 'devices' including the list, the pattern, the event and the anecdote.

Spis treści

Introduction: A Perpetual Inventory.  Anecdote.  Category.  Configuration.  Experiment: Abstract Experimentalism.  Experiment: The Experiment in Living.  List.  Number.  Pattern.  Pattern.  Photo-Image.  Phrase.  Population.  Probes. Screen.  Set.  Speculation.  Tape Recorder.