James Joseph Scheurich
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.
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;
In recent years, research in the social sciences has been dominated by the debate on the merits of qualitative method versus quantitative methodology. This book goes one step further than those working at the philosophical level, showing the implications of postmodernism for practice.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
The introduction - what is a title? what is an author? what is this work? what is method? what is postmodernism?; a postmodernist review of interviewing; the masks of validity - a deconstructive investigation; policy archaeology - a postmodernist policy studies methodology; colouring epistemology - a race archaeology of research method; a postmodern politics of epistemology - social relativism; method in the postmodern.
Klappentext
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.
