New Approaches in Social Research / Edition 1

by Carol Grbich

Overview

This groundbreaking book explores the implications of postmodernist ideas within the research context. The text relates debates in postmodernism directly to current thinking and practice in both qualitative and quantitative research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761949329
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/09/2003
Series:	Introducing Qualitative Methods series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

Carol Grbich is in the Faculty of Health Sciences, The Flinders University of South Australia.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: PHILOSOPHICAL CHANGES
Modernity to Modernism
Postmodernity and Postmodernism
Structuralism and Poststructuralism
PART TWO: THE IMPACT OF POSTMODERNISM, POSTSTRUCTURALISM, COMPLEXITY AND CHAOS ON SOCIAL AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Research Design
The Position of the Researcher
The Researcher, the Research Participants and the Reader
Data Presentation and Re-presentation
A Postmodern Piece of Research
Continuums and Continuities