The Craft of Knowledge [electronic resource] : Experiences of Living with Data /
Smart, C.editor.
Hockey, J.editor.
James, A.editor.
This book is a contribution to contemporary debates on social research with a unique focus on the relationship between methods and the crafting of knowledge. Nine experienced researchers from different disciplines have come together to explore what really matters to them in the process of doing qualitative research.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: The Changing Politics and Context of Research; 1 'Bias Binding': Re-Calling Creativity in Qualitative Research; 2 Possession: Research Practice in the Shadow of the Archive; 3 Writing as a Movement of Imagination, Reading as Companionship in Thought; Part II: Research and the Crafting of Knowledge; 4 Jigsaws with Missing Pieces: Research Imagination(s) and Children's Lives; 5 The Social Life of Interview Material; 6 Voice, History and Vertigo: Doing Justice to the Dead through Imaginative Conversation
Part III: Living with Data7 Fragments: Living with Other People's Lives as Analytic Practice; 8 Being in the Field: Doing Research; 9 Living with the Dead; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book is a contribution to contemporary debates on social research with a unique focus on the relationship between methods and the crafting of knowledge. Nine experienced researchers from different disciplines have come together to explore what really matters to them in the process of doing qualitative research.
Social sciences.
Social policy.
Historiography.
Sociology.
Political theory.
Knowledge management.
Methodology of the Social Sciences.
Social Policy.
Historiography and Method.
Sociology, general.
Political Theory.
Knowledge Management.