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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972163903321

Autore

Hammersley Martyn

Titolo

Methodology : who needs it? / / Martyn Hammersley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Los Angeles, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, 2011

Los Angeles, Calif. ; ; London : , : SAGE, , 2011

ISBN

9786613554864

9781446287941

1446287947

9781280299957

1280299959

9781446210123

144621012X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Disciplina

300.721

Soggetti

Social sciences - Research - Methodology

Social sciences - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART 1 THE ROLE OF THE RESEARCHER: LIMITS, OBLIGATIONS AND VIRTUES; 1 METHODOLOGY, WHO NEEDS IT?; 2ON THE SOCIAL SCIENTIST AS INTELLECTUAL; 3SHOULD SOCIAL SCIENCE BE CRITICAL?; 4OBJECTIVITY AS AN INTELLECTUAL VIRT UE; 5TOO GOOD TO BE FALSE? THE ETHICS OF BELIEF; PART 2 THE DIALECTIC OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION; 6 MODELS OF RESEARCH: DISCOVERY, CONSTRUCTION, AND UNDERSTANDING; 7MERELY ACADEMIC? A DIALECTIC FORRESEARCH COMMUNITIES; 8ACADEMIC LICENCE AND ITS LIMITS:THE CASE OF HOLOCAUST DENIAL; EPILOGUE; REFERENCES; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, Hammersley argues that, in large part, the role of methodology reflects and is part of a wider problem: the gradual decline of a previously influential academic model of inquiry. This has occurred as a result of ideological challenges and the erosion of the



institutional conditions that support academic work.