Martyn Hammersley

Taking Sides in Social Research

Essays on Partisanship and Bias

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

It is often argued that all research is inevitably political in its assumptions and effect. Hammersley assesses all the arguments from the classic contributions to the debate - C. Wright Mills, Becker and Goulder - to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780415202879
• ISBN-10: 0415202876
• Artikelnr.: 21870858

Autorenporträt

Martin Hammersley is Professor in Educational and Social Research at the Open University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Taking sides in social research: an assessment of the
rationales for partisanship 2. Between Weber and Marx: C Wright Mills on
the role of the sociologist 3. Whose side was Becker on? Questioning
epistemological and political radicalism 4. Against Gouldner: the myth of a
partisan sociology 5. Methodological purism: Anatomy of a critique 6. Bias
in Social Research (with Roger Gomm)