John G. Scott, Gayle Letherby, Malcolm Williams

Objectivity and Subjectivity in Social Research

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Takes a completely new approach to objectivity and subjectivity, no longer treating them as opposed - as many existing texts do - but as logically and methodologically related in social research

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 168mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9780857028419
• ISBN-10: 0857028413
• Artikelnr.: 35938412

Autorenporträt

Gayle Letherby is an honorary professor of sociology at the University of Plymouth and a visiting professor at the University of Greenwich. Alongside substantive interests in reproductive and non/parental identities; gender, health, and well-being; loss and bereavement; travel and transport mobility and working; and gender and identity within institutions (including universities and prisons), she has an international reputation in research methodology. Expertise in this area includes feminist and qualitative approaches and in auto/biography and creative reflexivity (with reference to data collection and presentation). Gayle is currently a coeditor of the SAGE journal Methodological Innovations and is in the process of editing the Handbook of Feminist Research for Routledge. In addition to her own research and writing, Gayle has significant experience in research mentoring and consultancy both within academia, for grant funding bodies and for HealthWatch UK. For examples of nonacademic writing and pieces written for general readership, see http://arwenackcerebrals.blogspot.co.uk/ and https://www.abctales.com/user/gletherby

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
The Philosophical Bases of Objectivity and Relativity
Relationism and Dynamic Synthesis
Situated Objectivity in Sociology
Theorized Subjectivity
Social Objects and Realism
Objectivity and Subjectivity in Practice
Objectivity Established? A Trialogue
References
Index