Researching Social Change: Qualitative Approaches / Edition 1

by Julie McLeod, Rachel Thomson

Overview

This book provides a timely guide to qualitative methodologies that investigate processes of personal, generational and historical change, and will be an essential book for anyone wishing to develop research projects on these topics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412928878
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/08/2009
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Julie Mc Leod is Professor in Records Management at Northumbria University. She is the Programme Leader for the MSc and BSc in Information and Records Management distance learning courses. Her research is in records management, specifically the people, process, systems, and governance aspects, and she has directed many projects including AC+erm, the largest AHRC grant awarded for records management research. She plays an active role in the profession. See

Rachel Thomson is Professor of Social Resaerch in the School of Health and Social Welfare. Rachel has been involved in a major longitudinal qualitative study of young people transitions to adulthood, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council since 1996 through the Children 5-16 and the Young People, Citizenship and Social Change programmes. The study is currently being archived with the support of a grant from the ESRC, and will be made available for secondary analysis (see www.lsbu.ac.uk/inventingadulthoods). Her research interests focus on gender identities, social change, sexuality, values, transitions and popular culture.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Researching Change and Continuity
PART ONE: REMEMBERING
Memory-Work
Oral and Life History
PART TWO: BEING WITH
Qualitative Longitudinal Research
Ethnography
PART THREE: INHERITING
Generation
Revisiting
Time, Emotions and Research Practice
Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

This book will undobutedly be a key reference work in the fast growing area of qualitative analyses of social change -
International Journal of Social Research Methodology

This is a scholarly and thoughtful book. It is clearly written and accessible with useful summaries of the main points at each chapter end…It provides a valuable resource for qualitative social researchers and students, being packed with references and further resources across a range of research traditions
Social Research Association News

The book has broad appeal to anyone interested in researching social change, at whatever stage they are at in their career. It provides not only a useful introduction to a range of methods but also helps the researcher to consider their positioning within their own project. The authors write enthusiastically about research and celebrate the fact that it should be a

collaborative process, two important concepts for any qualitative researcher to remember
Qualitative Research

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