Researching Social Change

Qualitative Approaches
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4129-2887-8
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 359 g

Questions about change in social and personal life are a feature of many accounts of the contemporary world. While theories of social change abound, discussions about how to research it are much less common. This book provides a timely guide to qualitative methodologies that investigate processes of personal, generational and historical change. The authors showcase a range of methods that explore temporality and the dynamic relations between past, present and future. Through case studies, they review six methodological traditions: memory-work, oral/life history, qualitative longitudinal research, ethnography, intergenerational and follow-up studies. It illustrates how these research approaches are translated into research projects and considers the practical as well as the theoretical and ethical challenges they pose. Research methods are also the product of times and places, and this book keeps to the fore the cultural and historical context in which these methods developed, the theoretical traditions on which they draw, and the empirical questions they address. Researching Social Change is an invaluable resource for researchers and graduate students across the social sciences who are interested in understanding and researching social change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mcleod, Julie

Thomson, Rachel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Researching Change and Continuity
PART ONE: REMEMBERING
Memory-Work
Oral and Life History
PART TWO: BEING WITH
Qualitative Longitudinal Research
Ethnography
PART THREE: INHERITING
Generation
Revisiting
Time, Emotions and Research Practice
Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Thomson, Rachel
Rachel Thomson is Professor of Social Resaerch in the School of Health and Social Welfare. Rachel has been involved in a major longitudinal qualitative study of young people transitions to adulthood, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council since 1996 through the Children 5-16 and the Young People, Citizenship and Social Change programmes. The study is currently being archived with the support of a grant from the ESRC, and will be made available for secondary analysis (see www.lsbu.ac.uk/inventingadulthoods). Her research interests focus on gender identities, social change, sexuality, values, transitions and popular culture.

Mcleod, Julie
Julie McLeod is Professor in Records Management at Northumbria University. She is the Programme Leader for the MSc and BSc in Information and Records Management distance learning courses. Her research is in records management, specifically the people, process, systems, and governance aspects, and she has directed many projects including AC+erm, the largest AHRC grant awarded for records management research. She plays an active role in the profession. See