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  • The Concept of Culture

    A History and Reappraisal

    by Martyn Hammersley ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    While the term ‘culture’ has come to be very widely used in both popular and academic discourse, it has a variety of meanings, and the differences among these have not been given sufficient attention. This book explores these meanings, and identifies some of the problems associated with them, as well as examining the role that values should play in cultural analysis.The development of four, very ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Troubling Sociological Concepts

    An Interrogation

    by Martyn Hammersley ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Sociology addresses challenging social issues and seeks new ways to understand them. However, much sociological terminology suffers from multiple, vague, or uncertain meanings. This is true of many of the central terms that sociologists use, such as ‘power’, ‘ideology’, ‘culture’, ‘social class’, and even ‘society’. The result is that the conclusions reached by sociological investigations are ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Dilemma Qualitative Method

    by Martyn Hammersley ...
    First Published in 1990. Originally published in 1989, The Dilemma of Qualitative Method is a stimulating guide to the discussion of qualitative versus quantitative approaches to social research, originated in nineteenth-century debates about the relationship between the methods of history and natural science. One of the key theorists in this area was Chicago sociologist Herbert Blumer. The book ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Researching School Experience

    Explorations of Teaching and Learning

    by Martyn Hammersley ...
    There is a tendency in much educational thinking to view pupils in passive terms, as the material on which schools operate. This damaging view is challenged here. Significant recent research shows the effects of changing educational conditions on the experience of teaching and learning in schools. By redressing the balance and acknowledging the affective side of pupils and their learning, this ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Methodological Concepts

    A Critical Guide

    by Martyn Hammersley ...
    Methodological Concepts: A Critical Guide clarifies many key terms and issues in social research methodology. It outlines the conventional meanings of these terms, but also addresses their contentious character. The aim is to offer interpretations of them that provide a coherent conception of the nature of social science.This book is premised on the idea that more clarity about the meaning of ... Read more

    Was $49.99 USD Now $44.99 USD

  • Methodology: Who Needs It?

    by Martyn Hammersley ...
    The literature on social science methods and the issues surrounding them has grown massively and continues to increase. Yet many social scientists are ambivalent about methodology. For some, it plays a central, perhaps even an all-encompassing, role; while, for others, it is desirable only in small amounts, or indeed is regarded as an irrelevance, as a distraction from actually doing research.In ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Media Bias in Reporting Social Research?

    The Case of Reviewing Ethnic Inequalities in Education

    by Martyn Hammersley ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    In recent years, the importance of disseminating the findings of social research has been given increased emphasis. The most effective way in which this can be done is via the mass media. However, there are frequent complaints that media coverage of social and educational research is very limited and often distorted. Through a detailed analysis of a particular case about ethnic inequalities in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Reading Ethnographic Research

    by Martyn Hammersley ...
    Series series Longman Social Research Series
    Provides a practical guide to the critical reading of ethnographic studies: discussing in detail how to identify the main arguments and what is involved in making an assessment of such studies. ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • The Myth of Research-Based Policy and Practice

    by Martyn Hammersley ...
    Martyn Hammersley′s provocative new text interrogates the complex relationship between research, policymaking and practice, against the background of the evidence-based practice movement. Addressing a series of probing questions, this book reflects on the challenge posed by the idea that social research can directly serve policymaking and practice.Key questions explored include:- Is scientific ... Read more

    $99.89 USD

  • The Myth of Research-Based Policy and Practice

    by Martyn Hammersley ...
    Martyn Hammersley′s provocative new text interrogates the complex relationship between research, policymaking and practice, against the background of the evidence-based practice movement. Addressing a series of probing questions, this book reflects on the challenge posed by the idea that social research can directly serve policymaking and practice.Key questions explored include:- Is scientific ... Read more

    $99.89 USD

  • Routledge Revivals: The Dilemma of Qualitative Method (1989)

    Herbert Blumer and the Chicago Tradition

    by Martyn Hammersley ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1989, The Dilemma of Qualitative Method is a stimulating guide to the discussion of qualitative versus quantitative approaches to social research, originated in nineteenth-century debates about the relationship between the methods of history and natural science. One of the key theorists in this area was Chicago sociologist Herbert Blumer. The book analyses the historical ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • A Dictionary of Social Research Methodology

    by Martyn Hammersley ...
    This accessible book offers a detailed guide to a wide range of methodological concepts, both those of a philosophical kind and those that are more technical in character: from constructionism to critical realism, grounded theory to regression analysis, odds ratios to triangulation.It covers quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research. There are shorter entries for relatively ... Read more

    $57.99 USD