Informed Consent
Subtitle: Information Production and Ideology
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Published: July 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780810839038
Subjects: Data analysis: general; Social theory; Methodology; Research; Social Science / Methodology; Social Science; Sociology; Ideology; Information theory in the soci; Information theory in the social sciences; Political planning; Social sciences
Description: "Informed Consent analyzes the interplay between ideology and information. Through extensive research on how information about the homeless is generated and interpreted, Lisa R. Schiff offers both hard evidence and a convincing argument for questioning "how service providers create forms and clients complete them, how advocates administer surveys and public agencies compile counts." At the same time, she explores the day-to-day implications of her findings by demonstrating how competing understandings affect prevailing ideologies, which in turn affect our attempts at social change."--Jacket.