The Politics of Social Research

by Martyn Hammersley

Book Overview

Is social research political? Should it be political? What are the implications of the politicization of social research?

Recent years have seen a growing range of challenges to the idea that research should be governed by the principle of value neutrality. Critical, feminist, antiracist and postmodernist analyses have argued that social research is intrinsically political. In this stimulating and often controversial book, Martyn Hammersley...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803977182
• ISBN13: 9780803977181
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"