Understanding Social Research : Thinking

The book explores methodological approaches in three key areas - personal life and relationships; places and mobilities, and socio-cultural change. These work as vehicles to expound methodological issues and challenges that are relevant across a much wider range of domains.Understanding Social Research brings together leading researchers in the social sciences ' including sociology, health, geography, psychology and social statistics - to elaborate their approach to research design and practice, based on their own research experience, and to consider what kinds of knowledge their methods can produce. Each of the contributing authors reflects on their own methods and identifies what is distinctive about them. The book contains fascinating insights into how the knowledge we produce is shaped by the methods we choose and use.

Notes on Contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Creative Tensions in Social Research: Questions of Method	p. 1
Researching Relationships and Personal Life	p. 27
Experimenting with Qualitative Methods: Researching Family Resemblance	p. 33
Using Psychoanalytic Methodology in Psychosocial Research: Researching Brothers	p. 49
Using Biographical and Longitudinal Methods: Researching Mothering	p. 62
Using Social Network Analysis: Researching Relational Structure	p. 75
Using Survey Data: Researching Families and Households	p. 90
Researching Place	p. 103
Ethnographies of Place: Researching the Road	p. 107
Using Sociotechnical Methods: Researching Human-Technological Dynamics in the City	p. 120
Using Participatory, Observational and 'Rapid Appraisal' Methods: Researching Health And Illness	p. 134
Innovative Ways of Mapping Data About Places	p. 150
Researching Change	p. 165
Using Archived Qualitative Data: Researching Socio-cultural Change	p. 169
What's History Got to Do With it? Researching Sexual Histories	p. 181
Using Qualitative Methods to Complement Randomized Controlled Trials: Researching Mental Health Interventions	p. 195
Exploring the Narrative Potential of Cohort Data and Event History Analysis	p. 210
Using Longitudinal Survey Data: Researching Changing Health in Later Life	p. 225
Index	p. 243
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