Pioneering Social Research : : Life Stories of a Generation / / Paul Thompson, Ken Plummer, Neli Demireva.
Presenting the landmark Pioneers life stories project, this one-of-a-kind book documents how modern social research in the UK was shaped. It sheds new light on the lives, methods and motivations of men and women who helped develop a new world of research methodology, pioneered feminist research, and...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (254 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- Authorship
- Acknowledgements
- Finding and using the pioneers’ interviews
- Introduction: the pioneers of social research study
- Moments of discovery
- Life stories: biography and creativity
- Beginnings
- Contexts: Empire, politics and culture
- Old boundaries, new thoughts
- Organising: creating research worlds
- Old and new trends
- Fighting or mixing: quantitative and qualitative research
- Into the field
- Fieldwork: making methods
- On the margins
- Social divisions: class, gender, ethnicity – and more
- Reflections for the future
- Conclusion: what can we learn?
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Further reading
- Biographical summaries
- Index