Critical strategies for social research

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Critical strategies for social research

edited by William K. Carroll

Canadian Scholars' Press, 2004

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Edited by Canadian sociologist William K. Carroll, this thought-provoking volume is designed for research methods courses in sociology and social sciences. Critical Strategies for Social Research explores ways in which several key research strategies bring an emancipatory dimension to social analysis. The new approaches recognize that social analysis is a form of knowledge production that takes place in a human-constructed world marked by injustice and persistent inequality. Carroll considers five influential and productive strategies of inquiry: Dialectical Social Analysis Institutional Ethnography Participatory Action Research Critical Discourse Analysis Social Inquiry as Communicative Reason

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Preface Introduction Part 1: Knowledge, Power, And Social Research Part 1A: Rediscovering the Critical Edge in Social Analysis Chapter 1 Theses on Feuerbach, Karl Marx Chapter 2 Whose Side Are We On?, Howard S. Becker Chapter 3 Social Justice and Sociology: Agendas for the Twenty-First Century, Joe R. Feagin Part 1B: Steps toward Critical Inquiry Chapter 4 On Intellectual Craftsmanship, C. Wright Mills Chapter 5 Methods from the Margins, Sandra Kirby and Kate McKenna Chapter 6 Twenty-Five Indigenous Projects, Linda Tuhiwai Smith Chapter 7 Toward an Emancipatory Methodology for Peace Research, Abigail Fuller Part 2: Five Critical Research Strategies Part 2A: Making Connections, Unmasking Relations: Dialectical Social Analysis Chapter 8 Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada, Jamie Swift, Jacqueline M. Davies, Robert G. Clarke, and Michael S.J. Czerny Chapter 9 The Principles of Dialectics, David Harvey Chapter 10 Why Dialectics? Why Now? Or, How to Study the Communist Future inside the Capitalist Present, Bertell Ollman Chapter 11 Explaining Global Poverty: A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approach, Branwen Gruffydd Jones Part 2B: Problematizing the Everyday World: Institutional Ethnography Chapter 12 Theory ""in"" Everyday Life, Marie Campbell and Frances Gregor Chapter 13 Ethnography, Institutions, and the Problematic of the Everyday World, Peter R. Grahame Chapter 14 Institutional Ethnography: Using Interviews to Investigate Ruling Relations, Marjorie L. DeVault and Liza McCoy Chapter 15 Institutional Ethnography and Experience as Data, Marie L. Campbell Part 2C: Subverting Dominant Discourses: Critical Discourse Analysis Chapter 16 Postmodernism and Deconstructionism, Norman K. Denzin Chapter 17 Two Lectures: Lecture One: January 7, 1976, Michel Foucault Chapter 18 Discovering Discourses, Tackling Texts, Ian Parker Chapter 19 The Critical Analysis of Discourse, Lilie Chouliaraki and Norman Fairclough Part 2D: Inquiry as Empowerment: Participatory Action Research Chapter 20 Local Knowledge, Cogenerative Research, and Narrativity, Davydd J. Greenwood and Morten Levin Chapter 21 Community-Based Participatory Research: Aspects of the Concept Relevant for Practice, Verna St. Denis Chapter 22 Community Action Research, Marge Reitsma-Street and Leslie Brown Chapter 23 Power and Knowledge, John Gaventa and Andrea Cornwall Part 2E: Social Inquiry as Communicative Reason: Toward a Public Sociology Chapter 24 The Promise, C. Wright Mills Chapter 25 Exploring the Relevance of Critical Theory for Action Research: Emancipatory Action Research in the Footsteps of Jürgen Habermas, Stephen Kemmis Chapter 26 The ""Project of Modernity"" and the Parameters for a Critical Sociology: An Argument with Illustrations from Medical Sociology, Graham Scambler Chapter 27 Emancipatory Politics, Critical Evaluation, and Government Policy, Madine VanderPlaat Conclusion Appendix: Workshops to Illustrate Critical Research Strategies in Practice

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