Inventive methods : the happening of the social / / edited by Celia Lury and Nina Wakeford

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 300.72
• Soggetto topico: Social sciences - Research - Methodology; Social sciences
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: LuryCelia WakefordNina
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Inventive Methods The happening of the social; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; 1 Introduction: a perpetual inventory; 2 Anecdote; 3 Category; 4 Configuration; 5 Experiment: abstract experimentalism; 6 Experiment: the experiment in living; 7 List; 8 Number; 9 Pattern, patterning; 10 Pattern; 11 Photo-image; 12 Phrase; 13 Population; 14 Probes; 15 Screen; 16 Set; 17 Speculation: a method for the unattainable; 18 Tape recorder; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Social and cultural research has changed dramatically in the last few years in response to changing conceptions of the empirical, an intensification of interest in interdisciplinary work, and the growing need to communicate with diverse users and audiences. Methods texts, however, have not kept pace with these changes.This volume provides a set of new approaches for the investigation of the contemporary world. Building on the increasing importance of methodologies that cut across disciplines, more than twenty expert authors explain the utility of 'devices' for social and cultural res
• Titolo autorizzato: Inventive methods
• ISBN: 1-280-87630-1; 9786613717610; 1-136-99397-5; 1-136-99396-7; 0-203-85492-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452401603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Culture, economy and the social.