Methods, Sex and Madness
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Feminist Anti-pornography Movement
Feminist Methodologists
Field Roles
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Human Sexual Behaviour
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Mapplethorpe’s Work
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methodology
Milgram's Subjects
Milgram’s Subjects
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
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participant observation techniques
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Prostitute Client Relationship
psychiatric research methods
qualitative data analysis
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Social Research Interview
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Subjective Adequacy
Subjective Beings
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Theory Testing Research
Vaginal Orgasm
Vice Versa
Young Men
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- ISBN 9780415097642
- Weight: 328g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 06 Oct 1994
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Social research yields knowledge which powerfully affects our daily lives. The 'facts' it generates shape not just how we see ourselves and others, but also whether or not we see the existing status quo as normal, just and legitimate. This book examines and questions the methods used by social researchers to produce such knowledge. It focuses chiefly on research into human sexuality and madness. It introduces and critically assesses everything from survey methods to participant observation. It opens up broader philosophical debates about the nature of knowledge, and highlights issues surrounding the ethics and politics of research.
The book looks at the research community and the research process in detail before moving on to examine the main techniques used in social research:
* the use of official statistics
* the survey method
* interviewing
* laboratory observation
* ethnography
* the use of documentary sources
* textual analysis.
By exploring both technical and conceptual problems in the work of researchers like Freud and Kinsey, and by considering the difficulties faced by researchers concerned with phenomena such as rape, witch hunts and prostitution this book makes methodological issues both interesting and accessible.
Julia O’Connell Davidson is Lecturer in Sociology., Derek Layder is Reader in Sociology at the University of Leicester.
