Critical issues in social research : power and prejudice / edited by Suzanne Hood, Berry Mayall, and Sandy Oliver. - ix, 177 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Children and childhood -- Children in the Majority World: is Outer Mongolia really so far away? -- Learning disabilities: the researcher's voyage to planet Earth -- Disturbed young people: research for what, research for whom? -- 'Unhistoric acts': women's private past -- Black people's health: ethnic status and research issues -- Frail elderly people: difficult questions and awkward answers -- Gay men: drowning (and swimming) by numbers -- The 'targets' of health promotion -- Users of health services: following their agenda -- People's ways of knowing: gender and methodology -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

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People with social disabilities--Research
Action research
Marginality, Social

HN29. / C69 1999

300.72