Researching social change : qualitative approaches / Julie McLeod and Rachel Thomson.

Questions about change in social and personal life are a feature of many accounts of the contemporary world. While theories of social change abound, discussions about how to research it are much less common. This book provides a timely guide to qualitative methodologies that investigate processes of...

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Main Author: McLeod, Julie, 1958-
Other Authors: Thomson, Rachel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2009.
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Summary:Questions about change in social and personal life are a feature of many accounts of the contemporary world. While theories of social change abound, discussions about how to research it are much less common. This book provides a timely guide to qualitative methodologies that investigate processes of personal, generational and historical change. The authors showcase a range of methods that explore temporality and the dynamic relations between past, present and future. Through case studies, they review six methodological traditions: memory-work, oral//life history, qualitative longitudinal resea.
Physical Description:1 online resource (189 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-182) and index.
ISBN:9781446204450
1446204456
1283288648
9781283288644
9781446244838
1446244830
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
Action Note:digitized