Social research philosophy, politics and practice edited by Martyn Hammersley. - London Newbury Park, Calif. Sage Publications 1993. - xiii, 242 p. ill. 23 cm.

Published in association with the Open University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An overall view of positivism / Leszek Kolakowski -- Two traditions / G.H. von Wright -- Qualitative research and psychological theorizing / Karen L. Henwood and Nick F. Pidgeon -- The elements of critical social science / Brian Fay -- Traditions in documentary analysis / Victor Jupp and Clive Norris -- Decolonializing applied social sciences / Rodolfo Stavenhagen -- Towards a methodology for feminist research / Maria Mies -- Interventions in new social movements / Elim Papadakis -- A political classification of evaluation studies in education / Barry MacDonald -- The value of quantitative methodology for feminist research / Toby Epstein Jayaratne -- 'Race' and statistics / Waqar I.U. Ahmad and Trevor A. Sheldon -- Research analysis of administrative records / Catherine Hakim -- How official statistics are produced : views from the inside / Government Statisticians' Collective -- 'It's great to have someone to talk to' : ethics and politics of interviewing women / Janet Finch. Observations and the police : the research experience / Maurice Punch -- Increasing the generalizability of qualitative research / Janet Ward Schofield -- The obviousness of social and educational research results / N.L. Gage.

0803988044 0803988052 (pbk.)

92056439


Social sciences--Research.

H62 / .S6737 1993

300/.72