Research Method in the Postmodern

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:	9781135402853
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/02/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

James Joseph Scheurich

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;