Routledge Advances in Research Methods
Diagramming the Social: Relational Method in Research
1st Edition
By Russell Dudley-Smith, Natasha Whiteman
April 29, 2022
This book challenges the hyper-production and proliferation of concepts in modern social research. It presents a distinctive methodological response to this tendency through an exploration of one of the most underappreciated yet widely deployed conventions for the analysis of social processes: the ...
Defending Qualitative Research: Design, Analysis, and Textualization
1st Edition
By Mario Cardano
September 30, 2021
Focussing on the phases of qualitative research which precede and follow fieldwork – design, analysis, and textualization – this book offers new theoretical tools to tackle one of the most common criticisms advanced against qualitative research: its presumed lack of rigour. Rejecting the notion of ...
Foundations and Practice of Research: Adventures with Dooyeweerd's Philosophy
1st Edition
By Andrew Basden
June 30, 2021
Many of the issues on which meaningful research is founded are seldom discussed; for example, the role of everyday experience, diversity and coherence of meaning in the world, the meaningfulness and wider mandate of research, the very nature and validity of theoretical thought, and the deep ...
Gambling, Losses and Self-Esteem: An Interactionist Approach to the Betting Shop
1st Edition
By Cormac Mc Namara
June 30, 2021
This book provides new insights into contemporary betting shops, with a particular focus on the manner in which losing bets are dealt with by customers. Drawing on research undertaken in Ireland, it demonstrates that customers tend to shift responsibility for monetary losses onto factors external ...
Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic Region
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebecca W. B. Lund, Ann Christin E. Nilsen
June 30, 2021
Developed in response to the theoretically driven mainstream sociology, institutional ethnography starts from people’s everyday experiences, and works from there to discover how the social is organized. Starting from experience is a central step in challenging taken-for-granted assumptions and ...
Action Research in a Relational Perspective: Dialogue, Reflexivity, Power and Ethics
1st Edition
Edited
By Lone Hersted, Ottar Ness, Søren Frimann
March 31, 2021
Action Research in a Relational Perspective brings together an expert international academic team to present theoretical perspectives on social constructionist understandings of action research, as well as illustrative examples of action research practices within a wide range of sectors such as ...
Dialectics, Power, and Knowledge Construction in Qualitative Research: Beyond Dichotomy
1st Edition
By Adital Ben-Ari, Guy Enosh
March 31, 2021
This book is about going beyond dichotomy. The research literature in social sciences is full of apparent dichotomies such as the dichotomy between: qualitative and quantitative approaches; "reality" and "multiple-realities"; ontology and epistemology; researchers and participants; the right and ...
Situated Writing as Theory and Method: The Untimely Academic Novella
1st Edition
By Mona Livholts
March 31, 2021
This creative and original book develops a framework for situated writing as theory and method, and presents a trilogy of untimely academic novellas as exemplars of the uses of situated writing. It is an inter- and trans-disciplinary book in which a diversity of forms are used to create a set of ...
Beyond Disciplinarity: Historical Evolutions of Research Epistemology
1st Edition
By Catherine Hayes, John Fulton, Andrew Livingstone, Claire Todd, Stephen Capper, Peter Smith
December 23, 2020
This book provides a means of comprehensively grounding and considering the epistemological and philosophical underpinnings of practice-based research epistemologies. By introducing readers to the diverse array of methodological tools and concepts that are necessary to underpin postgraduate ...
Action Research in Policy Analysis: Critical and Relational Approaches to Sustainability Transitions
1st Edition
Edited
By Koen P.R. Bartels, Julia M. Wittmayer
August 14, 2020
Today’s pressing political, social, economic, and environmental crises urgently ask for effective policy responses and fundamental transitions towards sustainability supported by a sound knowledge base and developed in collaboration between all stakeholders. This book explores how action research ...
Methodologies of Embodiment: Inscribing Bodies in Qualitative Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Mia Perry, Carmen Liliana Medina
August 14, 2020
This volume is dedicated to exploring and exposing the challenges, the possibilities, and the processes of empirical work in embodiment. Grounded in qualitative inquiry in the humanities and social sciences, the chapters describe perspectives and contexts of embodied research, but focus on the...
Researching Marginalized Groups
1st Edition
Edited
By Kalwant Bhopal, Ross Deuchar
August 14, 2020
This edited collection explores issues that arise when researching "hard-to-reach" groups and those who remain socially excluded and marginalized in society, such as access, the use of gatekeepers, ethical dilemmas, "voice," and how such research contributes to issues of inclusion ...