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Beyond Method: Strategies for Social Research

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Research is often seen as a neutral, technical process through which researchers simply reveal or discover knowledge. A broader and more self-reflective stance is advocated in Beyond Method, one in which a knowledge of technique needs to be complemented by an appreciation of the nature of research as a distinctively human process, through which researchers make knowledge. Such an appreciation requires a reframing of understanding and debate about research, in a way that goes beyond show more considerations of method alone. show less

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Genres: Nonfiction, Sociology
DDC/MDS: 300.72 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social sciences Education And Research Social sciences--research
LCC: H62 .B474 — Social sciences Social sciences (General)
BISAC: SOC SOCIAL SCIENCE Research

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Published: 1983
Genres: Nonfiction, Sociology
DDC/MDS: 300.72
LCC: H62 .B474

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