Critical Strategies for Social Research
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- ISBN 9781551302515
- Weight: 711g
- Dimensions: 174 x 247mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 2004
- Publisher: Canadian Scholars
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Paperback
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Edited by Canadian sociologist William K. Carroll, this thought-provoking volume is designed for research methods courses in sociology and social sciences. Critical Strategies for Social Research explores ways in which several key research strategies bring an emancipatory dimension to social analysis. The new approaches recognize that social analysis is a form of knowledge production that takes place in a human-constructed world marked by injustice and persistent inequality.
Carroll considers five influential and productive strategies of inquiry:
Carroll considers five influential and productive strategies of inquiry:
- Dialectical Social Analysis
- Institutional Ethnography
- Participatory Action Research
- Critical Discourse Analysis
- Social Inquiry as Communicative Reason
Dr. William K. Carroll is one of Canada's leading sociologists. He is professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria. His main areas of interest are political economy, corporate power structures, social movements, theory and ideology, and Canadian society.
