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Educational Research maps the demands now being made on educational research against the background complexities of the relationship between research ...
In this book, Martyn Hammersley argues that many social scientists are ambivalent about methodology because of a wider problem: the gradual decline of...
This book illuminates the problems and perspectives of qualitative research and offers researchers a comprehensive overview of the various types of ....
Martyn Hammersleyโฒs provocative new text interrogates the complex relationship between research, policymaking and practice, against the background o...
Is social research political? Should it be political? What are the implications of the politicization of social research? Recent years have seen a gro...
Critical Essays
Is qualitative research in crisis? In Questioning Qualitative Inquiry Martyn Hammersley raises fundamental questions about the current state of qualit...
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 te...
A Critical Guide
Methodological Concepts: A Critical Guide clarifies many key terms and issues in social research methodology. It outlines the conventional meanings of...
Principles in Practice
Thoroughly updated and substantially rewritten, the second edition of this popular textbook is now even more relevant and useful for students and rese...
Causal Explanation and Value Relevance
What forms of knowledge can social science claim to produce? Does it employ causal analysis, and if so what does this entail? What role should values ...
Controversies and Contexts
All social researchers need to think about ethical issues. Their salience has recently been increased by the pressures of ethical regulation, particul...
An Interrogation
Sociology addresses challenging social issues and seeks new ways to understand them. However, much sociological terminology suffers from multiple, vag...
Explorations of Teaching and Learning
This book brings together material from wide range of studies, mainly qualitative in character, concerned with exploring what actually goes on in lear...
Martyn Hammersley's practical guide to the critical reading of ethnographic studies shows how to identify principal arguments, how to assess research,...
Empirical and Methodological Essays
Originally published in 1990, Classroom Ethnography examines the interplay between empirical research and methodological reflection. It explores the n...
First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Herbert Blumer and the Chicago Tradition
Martyn Hammersley describes the history of the dispute between qualitative and quantitative methods in social research and the relevance of the argume...
Essays on Partisanship and Bias
In the past it was generally taken for granted that the goal of social research was the production of objective knowledge; and that this required a co...
Provides a practical guide to the critical reading of ethnographic studies: discussing in detail how to identify the main arguments and what is involv...
This stimulating and refreshing study, written by one of the leading commentators in the field, provides novel answers to these crucial questions. "Wh...
An assessment of sources and principles
There have been relatively few well-informed, critical assessments of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. This book examines some of the backg...
Methodological Explorations
Originally published 1992 What's Wrong With Ethnography? provides a fresh look at the rationale for and distinctiveness of ethnographic research in so...
Explorations in Case-focused Causal Analysis
This book challenges the divide between qualitative and quantitative approaches that is now institutionalized within social science. Rather than sugge...
Originally published in 1989, The Dilemma of Qualitative Method is a stimulating guide to the discussion of qualitative versus quantitative approaches...
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A History and Reappraisal
While the term โcultureโ has come to be very widely used in both popular and academic discourse, it has a variety of meanings, and the differences...
A Methodological Assessment
The issue of educational opportunity has long been of public concern and a major focus for eduational research. As a result, there is now a substantia...
The Case of Reviewing Ethnic Inequalities in Education
In recent years, the importance of disseminating the findings of social research has been given increased emphasis. The most effective way in which th...
Some Sociological Case Studies
What's Wrong with Ethnography? (1992): Methodological Explorations
A Sociological Introduction
An Assessment of Research on School Processes