The Foundations of Social Research Meaning and Perspective in the Research Process 1st Edition by Michael Crotty ISBN 9781446225745 1446225747

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ISBN 10: 1446225747
ISBN 13: 9781446225745
Author: Michael Crotty

Choosing a research method can be bewildering. How can you be sure which methodology is appropriate, or whether your chosen combination of methods is consistent with the theoretical perspective you want to take? This book links methodology and theory with great clarity and precision, showing students and researchers how to navigate the maze of conflicting terminology. The major epistemological stances and theoretical perspectives that colour and shape current social research are detailed and the author reveals the philosophical origins of these schools of inquiry and shows how various disciplines contribute to the practice of social research as it is known today.

The Foundations of Social Research Meaning and Perspective in the Research Process 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 Introduction: the research process

Four elements

What about ontology?

In all directions

The great divide

2 Positivism: the march of science

Positivism

Post-positivism

3 Constructionism: the making of meaning

The construction of meaningful reality

‘Social’ constructionism

Conformism or critique?

Realism and relativism

4 Interpretivism: for and against culture

Roots of interpretivism

Symbolic interactionism

Phenomenology

5 Interpretivism: the way of hermeneutics

Historical origins

The hermeneutic mode of understanding

Modern hermeneutics

6 Critical inquiry: the Marxist heritage

Karl Marx

Marxism after Marx

The Institute for Social Research

Critical theory

7 Critical inquiry: contemporary critics & contemporary critique

Jürgen Habermas and communicative reason

Paulo Freire’s pedagogy of the oppressed

Critical inquiry today

8 Feminism: re-visioning the man-made world

The many feminisms

Feminist ‘epistemology’

Feminine thought or feminist values?

9 Postmodernism: crisis of confidence or moment of truth?

‘Post’ what?

(Post-) structuralism

The character of post-structuralism

Back to the postmodern

10 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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