Researching Social Change : Qualitative Approaches

by Julie McLeod

• ISBN13: 9781412928861
• ISBN10: 1412928869
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-08
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

This book provides a timely guide to qualitative methodologies that investigate processes of personal, generational, and historical change. The authors showcase a range of methods that explore temporality and the dynamic relations between past, present, and future. Through case studies, they review six methodological traditions: memory work, oral/life history, qualitative longitudinal research, ethnography, inter-generational and follow-up studies. It illustrates how these research approaches are translated into research projects and considers the practical as well as the theoretical and ethical challenges they pose. Research methods are also the product of times and places, and this book keeps to the fore the cultural and historical context in which these methods developed, the theoretical traditions on which they draw, and the empirical questions they address.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Researching Change and Continuity

Remembering

Memory-Work

Oral and Life History

Being With

Qualitative Longitudinal Research

Ethnography

Inheriting

Generation

Revisiting

Time, Emotions and Research Practice

Conclusion

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