Researching Social Change: Qualitative Approaches

by Julie McLeod, Rachel Thomson

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 research, ethnography, inter-generational and follow-up studies. It illustrates how these research approaches are translated into research projects and considers the practical as well as the theoretical and ethical challenges they pose. Research methods are also the product of times and places, and this book keeps to the fore the cultural and historical context in which these methods developed, the theoretical traditions on which they draw, and the empirical questions they address.

200 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Mohamed basha]

That's great book,that considers the researchers feeling over time and try to get an overall view with respect to time and place.