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Approaches to social enquiry Advancing Knowledge

By: Publication details: London Policy Press 2012Description: 243P xi PBISBN:
  • 9780745634494
DDC classification:
  • 300.72 BLA
Contents:
Contents: List of Figures and Tables Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition INTRODUCTION *1 MAJOR CHOICES IN SOCIAL ENQUIRY Introduction Research Problem; Research Questions; Research Strategies; Researcher's Stance Research Paradigms; The Status of Knowledge; Research Paradigms and Research Strategies Chapter Summary; Further Reading; 2 MAJOR DILEMMAS IN SOCIAL ENQUIRY; Introduction; Science and Social Science; Major Dilemmas; The Postmodern Turn; Chapter Summary; Further Reading 3 ADVANCING KNOWLEDGE USING FOUR; RESEARCH STRATEGIES; Introduction Styles of Reasoning; The Inductive Research Strategy; The Deductive Research Strategy Combining the Inductive and Deductive Strategies; The Abductive Research Strategy; Combining Reproductive and Abductive Strategies; Chapter Summary; Further Reading 4 CLASSICAL RESEARCH PARADIGMS; Introduction; Positivism; Critical Rationalism; Classical Hermeneutics; Interpretivist; Chapter Summary; Further Reading; 5 CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH PARADIGMS; Introduction; Critical Theory; Ethnomethodology Social Realism; Contemporary Hermeneutics; Structuration Theory; Feminism; Chapter Summary Further Reading 6 REVIEW AND CRITIQUE OF THE RESEARCH PARADIGMS; Introduction; Research Paradigms Revisited: Ontology and Epistemology; Critique of the Research Paradigms; Review of Some Major Dilemmas; Association between Research Strategies Research Paradigms; Conclusion: Further Reading; POSTSCRIPT: THE COMPLEXITY TURN; Introduction; Origins Characteristics of Complex Systems; Key Ideas; The Reality of the Complex; Complexity and Postmodernism; Complexity and Research; Conclusion REFERENCES Notes Figures and Tables
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Social Sciences - Methodology

Contents:
List of Figures and Tables
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
INTRODUCTION *1 MAJOR CHOICES IN SOCIAL ENQUIRY
Introduction Research Problem; Research Questions; Research Strategies; Researcher's Stance Research Paradigms; The Status of Knowledge; Research Paradigms and Research Strategies Chapter Summary; Further Reading;
2 MAJOR DILEMMAS IN SOCIAL ENQUIRY; Introduction; Science and Social Science;
Major Dilemmas; The Postmodern Turn; Chapter Summary; Further Reading
3 ADVANCING KNOWLEDGE USING FOUR; RESEARCH STRATEGIES;
Introduction Styles of Reasoning; The Inductive Research Strategy; The Deductive Research Strategy Combining the Inductive and Deductive Strategies; The Abductive Research Strategy;
Combining Reproductive and Abductive Strategies; Chapter Summary; Further Reading
4 CLASSICAL RESEARCH PARADIGMS; Introduction; Positivism; Critical Rationalism; Classical Hermeneutics; Interpretivist; Chapter Summary; Further Reading;
5 CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH PARADIGMS; Introduction; Critical Theory; Ethnomethodology Social Realism; Contemporary Hermeneutics; Structuration Theory; Feminism; Chapter Summary Further Reading
6 REVIEW AND CRITIQUE OF THE RESEARCH PARADIGMS; Introduction; Research Paradigms Revisited: Ontology and Epistemology; Critique of the Research Paradigms; Review of Some Major Dilemmas; Association between Research Strategies Research Paradigms;
Conclusion: Further Reading; POSTSCRIPT: THE COMPLEXITY TURN; Introduction; Origins Characteristics of Complex Systems; Key Ideas; The Reality of the Complex; Complexity and Postmodernism; Complexity and Research;
Conclusion
REFERENCES
Notes
Figures and Tables