Description
Book SynopsisEmergent Methods in Social Research introduces state-of-the-art social research methods that address the growing methods-theory gap within and across the disciplines. In this text, editors Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Patricia Leavy combine original, in-depth introductions, previously published articles, and original works to provide readers with a comprehensive view of new and cutting-edge research methods and methodologies.
Key Features:
- Combines theoretical and empirical pieces: Both theoretical and methodological issues at the cutting edge of research are explored. The linking of theoretical and empirical pieces, in addition to the focus on emergent methods, makes this book highly unique to the field.
- Focuses on two sub-topics: Emerging research techniques across disciplines and emerging methods within disciplines are examined. The scope of the work offers a very broad perspective of the possible uses and issues sur
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"All of the book′s chapters are written with enthusiasm and an interest to stimulate researchers to make new uses of traditional data gathering methods and/or develop new ideas." -- Daunta A. Nitecki
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction: Emergent Methods in Social Research Within and Across Disciplines Skirting a Pleated Text: De-Disciplining an Academic Life - Laurel Richardson Getting Connected: How Sociologists Can Access the High Tech Elite - Trond Aren Undheim A Sociologist Among Economists: Some Thoughts on Methods, Positionality, and Subjectivity - Sarah Babb Ethnography and Conversation Analysis: What Is the Context of an Utterance? - Douglas W. Maynard Creativity Within Qualitative Research on Families: New Ideas for Old Methods - Sharon A. Deacon Sampling Human Experience in Naturalistic Settings - Tamlin Conner and Eliza Bliss-Moreau Feminist Visualization: Re-envisioning GIS as Method in Feminist Geographic Research - Mei-Po Kwan Practical Strategies for Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: Applications to Health Research - David Morgan Performing Autoethnography: An Embodied Methodological Praxis - Tami Spry Exposed Methodology: The Body as a Deconstructive Practice - Wanda S. Pillow Ethnodrama: Performed Research—Limitations and Potential - Jim Mienczakowski On the Listening Guide: A Voice-Centered Relational Method - Carol Gilligan, Renee Spencer, M. Katherine Weinberg and Tatiana Bertsch Friendship as Method - Lisa Tillmann-Healy Gender Imago - Niza Yanay and Nitza Berkovitch The Personal is Political: Using Daily Diaries to Examine Everyday Prejudice-Related Experiences - Lauri L. Hyers, Janet K. Swim, Robyn K. Mallett Feminist Media Ethnography in India: Exploring Power, Gender, and Culture in the Field - Radhika Parameswaran Conclusion: “Coming at Things Differently”: The Need for Emergent Methods About the Editors About the Contributors
