Researching social problems
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Researching social problems
(Routledge advances in research methods)
Routledge, 2020 [i.e. 2019]
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book covers a wide range of contemporary methods for researching social problems and connects these approaches to the broader substance and theories of social problems. Expository and discursive in approach, chapters follow a uniform structure, with each offering research examples and a broad description of the related method and its theoretical context, together with a "how-to" guide for applying that method using substantive examples from the field of social problems. For every method explored, there is a research example that fully reviews and illustrates the application of the particular method, before giving a full assessment of the method's strengths and weaknesses and latest developments. With chapters exploring survey interviews, in-depth interviews, narrative inquiry, institutional ethnography, participatory action research, auto-ethnography, Actor-Network Theory, experimental research, visual research methods, and research ethics, Researching Social Problems will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and politics working in the fields of research methods and social problems.
Table of Contents
Foreword: The Splendid Dangers and Worthy Methods of the Social Pathologist Introduction 1. Survey Research: Asking Questions for Assessing Social Problems 2. Research Interviews: Measuring, Feeling, and Constructing Social Problems 3. Narrative Inquiry: Stories and Storytellers of Social Problems 4. Institutional Ethnography: A Mode of Inquiry and a Strategy for Change 5. Participatory Action Research: Re-imagining the Study and Transformation of Social Problems 6. Autoethnography as a Methodology in Researching Social Problems 7. Considering Materiality: The Utility of Actor-Network Theory to Study Social Problems 8. Systematic Experimentation on Social Problems 9. Visual Research Methods: Integrating Images in the Study of Social Problems 10. The Ethics of the Study of Social Problems
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