Cox, Pat
Qualitative Research and Social Change
1. Introduction: The Importance of Qualitative Research to Social Change — Preliminary Considerations
Pat Cox, Thomas Geisen, Roger Green
Part I. Exploring Concepts and Approaches
2. Changing Research, Research for Change: Exploring the Perspectives of Complexity Science
Pat Cox
3. The Notion of Ambivalence: Human Action and Social Change beyond Analytical Individualism
Thomas Geisen
4. A Complex Terrain of Words and Deeds: Discourse, Research, and Social Change
Stephen Hicks, Carolyn Taylor
Part II. Welfare Issues and Community Development
5. Bringing about Social Change: The Role of Community Research
Roger Green
6. Forum Theatre as a Participatory Tool for Social Research and Development: A Reflection on ‘Nobody is perfect’ — A Project with Homeless People
Michael Wrentschur
7. Psycho-social Perspectives in Policy and Professional Practice Research
Chris Miller, Paul Hoggett, Marjorie Mayo
Part III. Issues in Research
8. Evaluating Risk Assessment: A Methodological Study of Mentally Disordered Offenders in the London Probation Area
Diana Wendy Fitzgibbon
9. Educational Research Need Not Be Irrelevant
Zvi Bekerman
10. Policy Analysis in Education — Multiplicity as a Key Orientation for Research
Katrin Kraus
Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Social Work, Urban Studies/Sociology, Science, general, Sociology, general, Development and Social Change
- Toimittaja
- Cox, Pat
- Geisen, Thomas
- Green, Roger
- Julkaisija
- Springer
- Julkaisuvuosi
- 2008
- Kieli
- en
- Painos
- 1
- Sivumäärä
- 232 sivua
- Kategoria
- Yhteiskunta
- Tiedostomuoto
- E-kirja
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230583962
- Painetun ISBN
- 978-1-349-35899-1