Full Description
Experience Research Social Change has long been a comprehensive and accessible resource for learning social research oriented toward social change. The third edition has been thoroughly revised and reorganized, and offers a wider range of diverse examples that are woven throughout the text, including transdisciplinary research, sex and gender analysis, intersectional analysis, Indigenous methodologies, community-based research, digital and online approaches to research, ethics, and more. Questions and additional readings have been added to the end of each chapter, and sidebars and suggested activities throughout highlight key messages and additional resources.
Contents
List of Exercises, Figures, and Tables
Introduction
Part A: Experience
1. Demystifying Research
2. Critical and Contemporary Approaches to Social Research
3. Being a Researcher: Locating Yourself and Research Ethics
Part B: Research
4. What? The Research Question and Establishing Writing and Organizational Processes
5. Why? The Literature Review
6. How? Research Methods
7. Who, Where, and When? Sampling and Finalizing the Research Proposal and Ethics Forms
8. Collecting, Organizing, and Managing Data
9. Analyzing Data
10. Writing the Report
Part C: Social Change
11. Strategies and Approaches for Making Change and the Role of the Researcher
Conclusion
References
Index
