Creative social research : rethinking theories and methods / edited by Ananta Kumar Giri.

Contributor(s):

Giri, Ananta Kumar [editor.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0739107836
9780739107836

Subject(s):

Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology

DDC classification:

300.72 22

LOC classification:

H62 .C695 2004

Contents:

Foreword : some observations on new directions in creative social research / S. N. Eisenstadt -- Introduction : the calling of creative social research : rethinking theories and methods / Ananta Kumar Giri -- 1. Articulating the world : social movements, the self-transcendence of society and the question of culture / Martin Fuchs -- 2. Towards liberative social sciences : dialogues with liberation theology / Felix Wilfred -- 3. Caring for economics / Irene van Staveren -- 4. Rethinking modernist historiography / Ananta Kumar Giri -- 5. Rethinking comparative politics : towards a critique of neo-statism in third world studies / Supriya RoyChowdhury -- 6. Studying 'rural development' politically / John Harriss -- 7. The irrelevance of methodology and the art of the possible : reading Sen and Hirschman / Achin Chakraborty -- 8. Gandhian economic method and the challenge of expediency / Narendar Pani -- 9. Experiments in creative research : efforts a combine participatory with conventional methodology / Walter Fernandes -- 10. On 'studying up' : thoughts on method / Gideon M. Kressel -- 11. Moral premises and theoretical musings : ontology of a journey / Chitra Sivakumar -- 12. Humanities and social sciences in the new millennium : theorization in/for society as play / Binod Kumar Agarwala -- 13. Trans-disciplinary methods and tools of experiment : insights from the philosophical traditions of Buddhism and Vedanta / Godabarisha Mishra -- 14. Second-order creativity in research : exploring an action-oriented perspective / D. P. Dash -- 15. Interdisciplinarity : building bridges and nurturing a complex ecology of ideas / Des Gasper -- 16. The calling of a creative transdisciplinarity / Ananta Kumar Giri.

Review: "Creative Social Research calls for a fundamental reconceptualization and transformation of contemporary research methods in the social sciences. Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines and geographies establish the ways in which the traditions of non-Western societies and contemporary global developments can be incorporated into current social science discourse, greatly enriching it beyond most of the existing paradigms and approaches. Creative Social Research sheds new light on social theory and calls for a new articulation of the practice and ideal of understanding at the levels of self, culture, and society."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Creative Social Research calls for a fundamental reconceptualization and transformation of contemporary research methods in the social sciences. Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines and geographies establish the ways in which the traditions of non-Western societies and contemporary global developments can be incorporated into current social science discourse, greatly enriching it beyond most of the existing paradigms and approaches. Creative Social Research sheds new light on social theory and calls for a new articulation of the practice and ideal of understanding at the levels of self, culture, and society."--BOOK JACKET.

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