New Strategies in Social Research

An Introduction and Guide
1. Auflage 1993
ISBN: 978-0-7456-0881-5
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 348 g

This book provides a new and innovative introduction to the methodology of social research. The aim of the author is to provide a bridge between recent theoretical debates in the social sciences and methodological issues. It is not just a 'how to' book for social researchers, or simply a description of research techniques. Rather, the work seeks to develop new strategies of research by marrying new perspectives in social analysis to problems of concrete research. The result is a text which is accessible yet sophisticated.

Apart from developing an original argument about research, the book is also designed as a resource text for students and more experienced researchers interested in developing theory from their own field research. It contains overviews of grounded theory and middle-range theory; a research resource map; strategies for developing theory; and guidelines and checklists for field research at the end of chapters.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Layder, Derek

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.

1. Research Strategy and Theory Construction.

2. Middle-Range Theory and Research.

3. Grounded Theory and Field Research.

4. Grounded Theory on a Broader Canvass.

5. A Resource Map for Research.

6. Data and Method in Multi-Strategy Research.

7. Research Strategy and Theory Building.

8. Investigating Power, Commitment and Constraint.

9. The Historical Dimension.

10. New Strategies: Some Reflections and a Practical Guide.

References.

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Derek Layder is the author of The Realist Image in Social Science (Macmillan, 1990). He is Reader in Sociology at the University of Leicester.