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Reflexive methodology : new vistas for qualitative research / Mats Alvesson and Kaj Sköldberg.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2000Description: viii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0803977069
  • 9780803977068
  • 0803977077
  • 9780803977075
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 001.42 22
LOC classification:
  • B105.R27 A48 2000
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword -- 1. Introduction: the intellectualization of method -- 2. Data-oriented methods: empiricist techniques and procedures -- 3. Hermeneutics: interpretation and insight -- 4. Critical theory: the political and ideological dimension -- 5. Poststructuralism and postmodernism: destabilizing subject and text -- 6. Language/gender/power: discourse analysis, feminism and genealogy -- 7. On reflexive interpretation: the play of interpretive levels -- References -- Index.
Summary: "Reflexivity is an essential part of the research process. It provides the perspective necessary for successful interpretation of field research and the development of insightful conclusions. In their new overview of the problems of reflexivity and interpretation Alvesson and Sk[um]oldberg have provided an invaluable guide to this central aspect of research methodology.; ; The authors review and critically discuss the major intellectual streams, and highlight their problems and possibilities in empirical work - hermeneutics, critical theory, postmodernism and poststructuralism, discourse analysis, geneaology and feminism. Possible implications of different kinds of empirical work are explored. A large part of the book is devoted to the development and exemplification of a reflexive methodology. This draws upon insights of how culture, language, selective perception, subjective forms of cognition, ideology all, in complicated way, permeate scientific activity.; ; The book makes explicit the links between techniques used in empirical research and different research traditions, making possible a theoretically-informed approach to qualitative research. The text helps researchers avoid the pitfall of naivete whilst pointing the way to a more open-minded, creative interaction between theoretical frameworks and empirical research."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-311) and index.

Foreword -- 1. Introduction: the intellectualization of method -- 2. Data-oriented methods: empiricist techniques and procedures -- 3. Hermeneutics: interpretation and insight -- 4. Critical theory: the political and ideological dimension -- 5. Poststructuralism and postmodernism: destabilizing subject and text -- 6. Language/gender/power: discourse analysis, feminism and genealogy -- 7. On reflexive interpretation: the play of interpretive levels -- References -- Index.

"Reflexivity is an essential part of the research process. It provides the perspective necessary for successful interpretation of field research and the development of insightful conclusions. In their new overview of the problems of reflexivity and interpretation Alvesson and Sk[um]oldberg have provided an invaluable guide to this central aspect of research methodology.; ; The authors review and critically discuss the major intellectual streams, and highlight their problems and possibilities in empirical work - hermeneutics, critical theory, postmodernism and poststructuralism, discourse analysis, geneaology and feminism. Possible implications of different kinds of empirical work are explored. A large part of the book is devoted to the development and exemplification of a reflexive methodology. This draws upon insights of how culture, language, selective perception, subjective forms of cognition, ideology all, in complicated way, permeate scientific activity.; ; The book makes explicit the links between techniques used in empirical research and different research traditions, making possible a theoretically-informed approach to qualitative research. The text helps researchers avoid the pitfall of naivete whilst pointing the way to a more open-minded, creative interaction between theoretical frameworks and empirical research."--Publisher description.

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