Researching social change : qualitative approaches /
Researching social change.
Julie McLeod and Rachel Thomson.
- London : SAGE, 2009.
- vii, 189 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliography (p.[170]-182) and index.
Part 1 Constructing change: Social change and personal change; Mapping time and space - Part 2: Remembering: Memory-work - Life history/ oral history - Part 3 Being with: Qualitative longitudina;l Ethnographic observation - Part 4 Inheritance: Intergenerational research; Revisiting data sets and secondary analysis - Part 5 Bringing together: Analysing and theorising from data; Capturing complexity.
The authors showcase a range of methods that explore temporality and the dynamic relations between past, present and future. This book reviews six methodological traditions: memory-work, oral/life history, qualitative longitudinal research, ethnography, intergenerational and follow-up studies.