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This innovative introduction to research in the social sciences guides students and new researchers through the maze of research traditions, cultures of inquiry and epistemological frameworks. It introduces the underlying logic of ten cultures of inquiry: ethnography; quantitative behavioral science; phenomenology; action research; hermeneutics; evaluation research; feminist research; critical social science; historical-comparative research; and theoretical research. It clarifies conceptual and intellectual traditions in research, and puts researchers firmly in the investigative saddle - able to choose, justify, and explain the intellectual framework and personal rationale of their research.
From Positivism to Postmodernity: The Mindful Inquirer as a Philosopher
From Positivism to Postmodernity: The Mindful Inquirer as a Philosopher
We believe that being a researcher means far more than mastering research methods and techniques. As we have said, it means entering into the community of researchers, its conversations and its debates. Moreover, to be a full-fledged member of that community means entering into its traditions and its historical situation. In the social and human sciences in particular, that means entering into the historical situation of the community of researchers, facing the issues that it faces, and understanding something of how they have emerged.
Research Methods as Historical Products
It is almost inevitable, in such a historical turning point, for old intellectual frameworks, problems, and paradigms to be ...
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