The self in social inquiry : researching methods / David N. Berg, Kenwyn K. Smith
Imprint
Newbury Park, California : Sage, 1988
Edition
1st ed
Descript
400 p. : ill. 22 cm
CONTENT
Clinical issues: The clinical demands of research methods -- Taking our selves seriously as researchers -- The hermeneutic turn and the single case -- Clinical understanding: Action usable knowledge -- Epistemological problems in researching -- Looking at research ideas as behavioral data -- Feminist distrust: problems of context and content in sociological work -- What is clinical methods -- Clinical involvement: On seeking one's own clinical voice: a personal account -- Anxiety in research relationships -- Self-full research -- On the researcher's group memberships -- Virtuos subjectivity: in the partcipant-observer's I's -- Clinical methods: Reconstructing an organization's history -- History in the here and now -- Using participant observation to consruct: a life history -- On studying emotionally hot topics -- Assessing local causality in qualitative research