The Craft of Knowledge

Experiences of Living with Data
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-44966-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 274 g

This book is a contribution to contemporary debates on social research with a unique focus on the relationship between methods and the crafting of knowledge. Nine experienced researchers from different disciplines have come together to explore what really matters to them in the process of doing qualitative research.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smart, C.

James, A.

Hockey, J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Wissensmanagement
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Jenny Hockey, Allison James and Carol Smart PART I: THE CHANGING POLITICS AND CONTEXT OF RESEARCH 1. 'Bias Binding': Re-calling Creativity in Qualitative Research; Simone Abram 2. Possession: Research Practice in the Shadow of the Archive; Rachel Thomson 3. Writing as a Movement of Imagination, Reading as Companionship in Thought; Les Back PART II: RESEARCH AND THE CRAFTING OF KNOWLEDGE 4. Jigsaws with Missing Pieces: Research Imagination(s) and Children's Lives; Allison James 5. The Social Life of Interview Material; Jenny Hockey 6. Voice, History and Vertigo: Doing Justice to the Dead through Imaginative Conversation; Nigel Rapport PART III: LIVING WITH DATA 7. Fragments: Living with Other People's Lives as Analytic Practice; Carol Smart 8. Being in the Field: Doing Research; Kath Woodward 9. Living with the Dead; Carolyn Steedman

Über Autor(innen)

Simone Abram, Reader at Leeds Metropolitan University and the University of Durham, UK



Les Back, Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK



Jennifer Mason, Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK



Nigel Rapport, Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK



Carolyn Steedman, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Warwick, UK



Rachel Thomson, Professor at the University of Sussex, UK



Kath Woodward, Professor Sociology at the Open University, UK