Becoming a Researcher

Argumento de Becoming a Researcher

Chapter 2 The Logic of Enquiry Finding a Place to Stand
The Nature of the Social
Positivism and Social Values
Reflexivity
The Logic of Enquiry

Chapter 3 Talking with people - Interviewing Introduction
The broad schema
Interview texts as ` resource¿
Interviews as social action
Power and process in the interview
Knowledge and Power
Questions and Design

Chapter 4 Knowing with Numbers- Questionnaires Introduction
Quantification as Scientific Inquiry
The Questionnaire as Scientific Apparatus
Constructing the Respondent / Reader
Theoretical structuring
Deconstruction Using Questionnaires

Chapter 5 Being There - Observation Introduction
Action in the Field
From Action to Data
From Data to Report
Conclusion
Part 2-Dicing with data ¿ Deconstructing text

Chapter 6 Breaking Down Data ¿ Routes to Interpretation Introduction
From Field to Text
Dicing with Data
Perhaps not...?
Complex Realisms
Interpretivist Repertoires
Reflexivity and Representation

Chapter 7 Worrying at Words ¿ Discourse Analysis Introduction
Transcripts and Summaries
Critical?
Uncritical?
Reference Outside the Text: Circularity of Argument
Thought and Language: More Circularity
Generalizing
Spotting Features
Discourse Analysis and Researcher Identity

Chapter 8 Pulverizing Policy ¿ Deconstructing Documents Policy and Process
Deconstructing the Text
The Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Curriculum
Analysing Key Documents
The QCA Draft Guidance
Part 3 -Data with Destiny - Reconstructing Text

Chapter 9 Writing Research ¿ Authoring Text Writing and the Real
Art and Science
Writing the Real
Qualitative Empiricism
Epistemology
Language and the Real: Writing and Postmodernism
Audience
Reading
Intertextuality Form and Genre
Knowledge

Chapter 10 The Selfish Text ¿ Research and Identity The Late Modern Self
Narrating the Self
Postmodern Selves: Agency and Determinism
Identity and Social Theory
Culture and the Global Perspective
The Democratization of Research
Chapter 11 Methods and Methodology What is Methodology?
Methodology, the Research Process and Identity
Methodology and Legitimacy ¿ Identity and Narrative
A Way Forward for Social Research?
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