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Reflexive methodology : new vistas for qualitative research /

Praise for the First Edition: 'Reflexive Methodology is a textbook indispensable to any young researcher. It does not tell its readers how to do research. It does something much more important: It shows how research has been done in the qualitative tradition, thus encouraging the readers to mak...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alvesson, Mats
Other Authors: Sköldberg, Kaj
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, 2009.
Edition:2nd ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the intellectualization of method
  • (Post-)positivism, social constructionism, critical realism: three reference points in the philosophy of science
  • Data-oriented methods: empiricist techniques and procedures
  • Hermeneutics: interpretation and in sight
  • Critical theory: the political and ideological dimension
  • Poststructuralism and postmodernisrn: destabilizing subject and text
  • Language/gender/power: discourse analysis, feminism and genealogy
  • On reflexive interpretation: the play of interpretive levels
  • Applications of reflexive methodology: strategies, criteria, varieties.