Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Alvesson, Mats, 1956-

Publication

Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Sköldberg, Kaj, 1942-

Description

ix, 350 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"Reflexive Methodology" provided researchers with an invaluable guide to a central problem in research methodology - how to put field research and interpretations in perspective, paying attention to the interpretive, political and rhetorical nature of empirical research. Now thoroughly updated, the Second Edition includes a new chapter on positivism, social constructionism and critical realism, and offers new conclusions on the applications of methodology. It provides further illustrations and updates that build on the acclaimed and successful first edition. Reflexivity is an essential part of the research process. In this book, Alvesson and Skoldberg make explicit the links between techniques used in empirical research and different research traditions, giving a theoretically informed approach to qualitative research. The authors provide balanced reviews and critiques of the major schools of grounded theory, ethnography, hermeneutics, critical theory, postmodernism and poststructuralism, discourse analysis, genealogy and feminism. This book points the way to a more open-minded, creative interaction between theoretical frameworks and empirical research.--Publisher's website.

Subject

• Social sciences > Research
• Social sciences > Methodology
• Research Design
• Social Sciences > methods
• research
• methods
• Forskning och utveckling
• 70.03 methods, techniques and organization of social science research
• Methodologie
• Qualitative Sozialforschung
• Reflexivität
• Sozialwissenschaften
• Methode
• Qualitative methods
• Social science research
• Recherche qualitative. > réflexion (philosophie)
• Recherche qualitative. > sciences sociales
• Forskningsmetodik
• Kvalitativ metod

Note

• Previous ed.: 2000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: the intellectualization of method -- (Post- )positivism, social constructionism, critical realism: three reference points in the philosophy of science -- Data-oriented methods: empiricist techniques and procedures -- Hermeneutics: interpretation and in sight -- Critical theory: the political and ideological dimension -- Poststructuralism and postmodernisrn: destabilizing subject and text -- Language/gender/power: discourse analysis, feminism and genealogy -- On reflexive interpretation: the play of interpretive levels -- Applications of reflexive methodology: strategies, criteria, varieties.

ISBN

• 1848601115
• 9781848601116
• 1848601123
• 9781848601123

LCCN

2008942798

OCLC

• ocn428778380
• 428778380
• SCSB-9436441

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library