Research Method in the Postmodern / Edition 1

by James Scheurich

Overview

In recent years, research in the social sciences has been dominated by the debate on the merits of qualitative method versus quantitative methodology. Until recently, the debate appeared to have been won by those promoting the qualitative approach, but then postmodern theory appeared on the scene, challenging all our preconceptions about research method. This book goes one step further than those working at the philosophical level, showing the implications of postmodernism for practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750707091
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/23/1997
Series:	Qualitative Studies Series , #3
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Educational Reforms Can Reproduce Societal Inequities: A Case Study, Michael Imber; Chapter 2 Social Relativism: (Not Quite) A Postmodernist Epistemology; Chapter 3 A Postmodernist Critique of Research Interviewing; Chapter 4 The Masks of Validity: A Deconstructive Investigation; Chapter 5 Policy Archaeology: A New Policy Studies Methodology; Chapter 6 Toward A White Discourse on White Racism: (An Early Attempt at an Archaeological Approach); Chapter 7 Coloring Epistemologies: Are Our Research Ephistemologies Racially Biased? (An Example of an Archaeological Approach), Michelle D. Young; Chapter 8 An Archaeological Perspective, Or It Is Turtles All the Way Down;