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Understanding Social Research : Thinking Creatively about Method

ISBN: 9781848601451 | 184860145X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Pub. Date: 12/29/2010

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SummaryTable of Contents
The book explores methodological approaches in three key areas - personal life and relationships; places and mobilities, and socio-cultural change. These work as vehicles to expound methodological issues and challenges that are relevant across a much wider range of domains.Understanding Social Research brings together leading researchers in the social sciences ' including sociology, health, geography, psychology and social statistics - to elaborate their approach to research design and practice, based on their own research experience, and to co... MORE
Notes on Contributorsp. vii
Acknowledgementsp. xi
Creative Tensions in Social Research: Questions of Methodp. 1
Researching Relationships and Personal Lifep. 27
Experimenting with Qualitative Methods: Researching Family Resemblancep. 33
Using Psychoanalytic Methodology in Psychosocial Research: Researching Brothersp. 49
Using Biographical and Longitudinal Methods: Researching ... MOREp. 62
Using Social Network Analysis: Researching Relational Structurep. 75
Using Survey Data: Researching Families and Householdsp. 90
Researching Placep. 103
Ethnographies of Place: Researching the Roadp. 107
Using Sociotechnical Methods: Researching Human-Technological Dynamics in the Cityp. 120
Using Participatory, Observational and 'Rapid Appraisal' Methods: Researching Health And Illnessp. 134
Innovative Ways of Mapping Data About Placesp. 150
Researching Changep. 165
Using Archived Qualitative Data: Researching Socio-cultural Changep. 169
What's History Got to Do With it? Researching Sexual Historiesp. 181
Using Qualitative Methods to Complement Randomized Controlled Trials: Researching Mental Health Interventionsp. 195
Exploring the Narrative Potential of Cohort Data and Event History Analysisp. 210
Using Longitudinal Survey Data: Researching Changing Health in Later Lifep. 225
Indexp. 243
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