Inventive methods : the happening of the social / edited by Celia Lury and Nina Wakeford.

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TextSeries: Publisher: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014Edition: Paperback editionDescription: xiii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780415721103

Subject(s):

Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology

DDC classification:

300.72 LU.I 2014 23

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Contents:

1. Introduction : a perpetual inventory / Celia Lury and Nina Wakeford -- 2. Anecdote / Mike Michael -- 3. Category / Evelyn S. Ruppert -- 4. Configuration / Lucy Suchman -- 5. Experiment : abstract experimentalism / Steven D. Brown -- 6. Experiment : the experiment in living / Noortje Marres -- 7. List / Andrea Philips -- 8. Number / Helen Verran -- 9. Pattern, patterning / Janis Jefferies -- 10. Pattern / Paul Stenner -- 11. Photo-image / Vikki Bell -- 12. Phrase / Matthew W. Fuller and Olga Gurionova -- 13. Population / Cori Hayden -- 14. Probes / Kirsten Boehner, William Gaver and Andy Boucher -- 15. Screen / Abdoumaliq Simone -- 16. Set / Adrian Mackenzie -- 17. Speculation : a method for the unattainable / Luciana Parisi -- 18. Tape recorder / Les Back.

Summary: Social and cultural research has changed dramatically in the last few years in response to changing conceptions of the empirical, an intensification of interest in interdisciplinary work, and the growing need to communicate with diverse users and audiences. Methods texts, however, have not kept pace with these changes. This volume provides a set of new approaches for the investigation of the contemporary world. Building on the increasing importance of methodologies that cut across disciplines, more than twenty expert authors explain the utility ...

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Social and cultural research has changed dramatically in the last few years in response to changing conceptions of the empirical, an intensification of interest in interdisciplinary work, and the growing need to communicate with diverse users and audiences. Methods texts, however, have not kept pace with these changes. This volume provides a set of new approaches for the investigation of the contemporary world. Building on the increasing importance of methodologies that cut across disciplines, more than twenty expert authors explain the utility ...

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