Full Description
This book asks the important question; Can the by-products of research activity be treated as data and of research interest in themselves?This groundbreaking interdisciplinary volume considers the analytic value of a range of 'by-products' of social research and reading. These include electronically captured paradata on survey administration, notes written in the margins of research documents and literary texts, and fieldnotes and ephemera produced by social researchers. Revealing the relational nature of paradata, marginalia and fieldnotes, contributions examine how the craft of studying and analyzing these by-products offers insight into the intellectual, social and ethical processes underpinning the activities of research and reading.
Unique and engaging, this book is a must read for social researchers and sociologists, narrative analysts, literary scholars and historians. Bridging methodological boundaries, it will also prove of great value to quantitative and qualitative methodologists alike.
Contributors include: K. Bell, J. Boddy, R.G. Burgess, G.B. Durrant, R. Edwards, H. Elliott, E. Fahmy, J. Goodwin, H.J. Jackson, D. Kilburn, O. Maslovskaya, H. O'Connor, A. Phoenix, W.H. Sherman
Contents
Contents:
Marginalia - A Poem by Billy Collins
Preface
Robert G. Burgess
1. Introduction: Working with Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes
John Goodwin, Henrietta O'Connor, Ann Phoenix and Rosalind Edwards
2. Paradata for Non-response Investigations in Social Surveys
Gabrielle B. Durrant and Olga Maslovskaya
3. Using Paradata to Evaluate Survey Quality: Behaviour Coding the 2012 PSE UK Survey
Eldin Fahmy and Karen Bell
4. 'Another Long and Involved Story': Narrative Themes in the Marginalia of the Poverty in the UK Survey
Ann Phoenix, Janet Boddy, Rosalind Edwards and Heather Elliott
5 'The House Seemed to be Falling Down Around Their Ears': Contesting and Amplifying Observations of Housing Through Qualitative Survey Paradata
Daniel Kilburn
6. The Secondary Analysis of Fieldnotes, Marginalia and Paradata from Past Studies of Young People
Henrietta O'Connor and John Goodwin
7. John Adam's Marginalia: Then and Now
H.J. Jackson
8. 'Soiled by Use' or 'Enlivened by Association'? Attitudes Towards Marginalia
William H. Sherman
9. Afterword: The Craft of Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes
Rosalind Edwards, Ann Phoenix, John Goodwin and Henrietta O'Connor
Index
