Research Catalog

Title

Reflexive methodology : new vistas for qualitative research / Mats Alvesson and Kaj Sköldberg.

Author

Alvesson, Mats, 1956-

Publication

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2000.

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Additional Authors

Sköldberg, Kaj, 1942-

Description

viii, 319 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Reflexivity is an essential part of the research process. This book provides an invaluable guide to one of the central problems of research methodology - the need to put field research and interpretations in perspective and to confront favoured lines of interpretation." "Reflexive Methodology makes explicit the links between techniques used in empirical research and different research traditions, giving a theoretically-informed approach to qualitative research. This book points the way to a more open-minded, creative interaction between theoretical frameworks and empirical research. It will be essential reading for students and researchers across the social sciences."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Reflection (Philosophy)
• Social sciences > Methodology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-311) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction: the intellectualization of method -- 2. Data-oriented methods: empiricist techniques and procedures -- 3. Hermeneutics: interpretation and insight -- 4. Critical theory: the political and ideological dimension -- 5. Poststructuralism and postmodernism: destabilizing subject and text -- 6. Language/gender/power: discourse analysis, feminism and genealogy -- 7. On reflexive interpretation: the play of interpretive levels.

ISBN

• 0803977069
• 0803977077 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^99073879^

OCLC

40646665

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library