Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Methodology

Winner of the 2016 ICQI Outstanding Qualitative Book Award

Acclaimed qualitative scholar Jane Speedy's world was upended completely after suffering a severe stroke when only in her late 50s. After returning home from the hospital, Speedy took to her iPad to write and draw as a way of making sense of her experience and to aid her recovery. The stunning, fragmented, poetic text and images comprising Staring at the Park depict the events of this difficult journey. It provides an alternative model of engaging the self in a research project in an evocative and artistic way. This highly...

In diesem Band werden methodische Aspekte ethnographischer Arbeit fokussiert. Unbeschadet dessen erscheint die Reinheit der je eingesetzten Erkundungs- und Deutungstechniken prinzipiell als nachrangig gegenuber der Aufgabe, so Vieles und so Vielfaltiges wie moglich uber die Welt, in der man sich jeweils bewegt, in Erfahrung zu bringen. Dies gelingt in Ethnographien vorzugsweise dadurch, dass die forschende Person am Leben in ihrem jeweiligen Feld tatsachlich teilhat und dass sie zugleich im Feld so agiert, dass sie es moglichst wenig von ausseren Wertsetzungen her beeinflusst und...

In a work of remarkable synthesis, imagination, and analysis, Neil Fligstein and Doug McAdam propose that social change and social order can be understood through what they call strategic action...

Contemporary societal problems are complex, intractable, and costly. Aiming to ameliorate them, social scientists formulate policies and programs, and conduct research testing the efficacy of the interventions. All too often the results are disappointing; partly because the theories guiding these studies are inappropriate, the study designs are flawed, and the empirical databases covering their research questions are sparse. This book confronts these problems of research by following this process: analyze the roots of the social problem both theoretically and empirically; formulate a study...