Reflexive Methodology: New Vistas for Qualitative ResearchSAGE, 2017 M10 23 - 456 pages Praise for the Second Edition: Professor Sabine Troeger, Geography Institute - Library, University of Bonn The first edition established itself as a ground-breaking success, providing researchers with an invaluable guide to a central problem in research methodology - namely, how to put field research and interpretations in perspective, paying attention to the interpretive, political and rhetorical nature of empirical research. The second edition introduced a new chapter on positivism, social constructionism and critical realism, and offered new conclusions on the applications of methodology. This third edition of Reflexive Methodology provides further updates on new research, including neorealism, and illustrations and applications of reflexive methodology in formulating research strategies, that build on the acclaimed and successful previous editions |
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... critical realism. The empirical domain includes that which we can observe – things that happen and exist according to our immediate experience. The actual domain is a broader one, and refers to that which transpires independent of the ...
... critical realists, however, reality exists independent from researchers' ideas and descriptions of it. The relevance of knowledge is dependent on the nature, power and mechanism of the objective reality. However, this is not to say that ...
... critical realists relations are complex and causality can exist on different levels. They generate tendencies rather than inevitable, specific and measurable conditions. Critical realism examines the different mechanisms which have ...
... Critical realism distances itself from both methodological individualism (a focus on the actor level) and holism (a focus on the collective level) in emphasizing the social as relational and emergent. It is especially critical towards ...
... critical realism does not engage with methodological matters much. It is a philosophy that cannot directly contribute to the disclosure of structures and mechanisms that produce and impact on a certain, chosen, object of study. Still it ...
Contents
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INTERPRETATION AND INSIGHT | 115 |
THE POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL DIMENSION | 179 |
DESTABILIZING SUBJECT AND TEXT | 222 |
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS FEMINISM AND GENEALOGY | 279 |
THE PLAY OF INTERPRETIVE LEVELS | 321 |
ILLUSTRATIONS | 343 |
CRITERIA AND STRATEGIES | 365 |
REFERENCES | 399 |
INDEX | 429 |
Other editions - View all
Reflexive Methodology: New Vistas for Qualitative Research Mats Alvesson,Kaj Sköldberg Limited preview - 2017 |
Reflexive Methodology: New Vistas for Qualitative Research Mats Alvesson,Kaj Sköldberg No preview available - 2018 |
Reflexive Methodology: New Vistas for Qualitative Research Mats Alvesson,Kaj Sköldberg No preview available - 2018 |