Working Method: Research and Social Justice

by Weis,Lois

• ISBN13: 9780415948258
• ISBN10: 0415948258
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Working Methodexplores the theory, method, and politics of contemporary social research. Through ethnographic and qualitative study, noted scholars Lois Weis and Michelle Fine investigate communities under siege and document both the costs of oppression and the strengths of endurance that circulate among the young, poor, and working-class in America. They provide an important model for negotiating the complexities involved in this type of research and give thoughtful consideration to the various strategies and tools available to social researchers

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Introduction	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction Compositional Studies in Four Parts-Critical Theorizing and Analysis on Social (In)Justice	xv
Lois Weis and Michelle Fine
Section 1: Full Composition and Initial Fracturing
Chapter 1 Dear Zora: A Letter to Zora Neale Hurston Fifty Years After Brown	3	(24)
Michelle Fine, Janice Bloom, April Burns, Lori Chajet, Monique Guishard, Tiffany Perkins-Munn, and Maria Elena Torre
Section 2: Deep Work Within a Fracture
Chapter 2 Race, Gender, and Critique: African American Women, White Women, and Domestic Violence in the 1980's and 1990's	27	(26)
Lois Weis
Chapter 3 Civics Lessons: The Color and Class of Betrayal	53	(24)
Michelle Fine, April Burns, Yasser Payne, and María Elena Torre
Section 3: Designs for Historic Analysis
Chapter 4 Gender, Masculinity, and the New Economy	77	(18)
Lois Weis
Section 4: Designs to Document Sites of Possibility
Chapter 5 Participatory Action Research: From Within and Beyond Prison Bars	95	(26)
Michelle Fine, Maria Elena Torre, Kathy Boudin, Iris Bowen, Judith Clark, Donna Hylton, Migdalia Martinez, "Missy," Melissa Rivera, Rosemarie A. Roberts, Pamela Smart, and Debora Upegui
Chapter 6 Extraordinary Conversations in Public Schools	121	(32)
Lois Weis and Michelle Fine
Epilogue	153	(2)
Endnotes	155	(4)
References	159	(14)
Index	173