The Science of Qualitative Research
2nd Edition
- Author: Martin J. Packer, Universidad de San Buenaventura, Colombia
- Date Published: November 2017
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108404501
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This updated and expanded edition is a unique examination of qualitative research in the social sciences, raising and answering the question of why we do this kind of investigation. Rather than providing instructions on how to conduct qualitative research, The Science of Qualitative Research explores the multiple roots of qualitative research - including phenomenology, hermeneutics, and critical theory - in order to diagnose the current state of the field and recommend an alternative. The author argues that much qualitative research today uses the mind-world dualism that is typical of traditional experimental investigation, and recommends that instead we focus on constitution: the relationship of mutual formation between a form of life and its members. Michel Foucault's program for 'a history ontology of ourselves' provides the basis for this fresh approach. The new edition features updated chapters, and a brand new chapter which offers a discussion on how to put into practice Foucault's concept.
Read more- Reviews and explains the multiple origins of qualitative research today in the social sciences, so students will learn about relevant literature across multiple fields
- This revised edition includes a new chapter which provides a concrete example of a research project that studies constitution
- The pedagogical features include important background summary boxes, and tables and figures used to illustrate central concepts
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: November 2017
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108404501
- length: 548 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 28 mm
- weight: 0.8kg
- contains: 7 b/w illus. 28 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. The Objective Study of Subjectivity:
1. What is science?
2. The qualitative research interview
3. The analysis of qualitative interviews
4. Hermeneutics and the project for a human science
5. Qualitative analysis reconsidered
Part II. Ethnographic Fieldwork – the Focus on Constitution:
6. Calls for interpretive social science
7. Dualism and constitution: the social construction of reality
8. Constitution as ontological
9. The crisis in ethnography
10. Studying ontological work
Part III. Inquiry with an Emancipatory Interest:
11. Qualitative research as critical inquiry
12. Emancipatory inquiry as rational reconstruction
13. Social science as participant objectification
14. Archaeology, genealogy, ethics
15. A historical ontology of ourselves
16. The concrete investigation of constitution.
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