01968cam a2200193 a 4500 130404s2011 enk b 001 0 eng 9781849202053 SDU H62 H224 M 2011 Hammersley, Martyn. 191023 Methodology : who needs it? / Martyn Hammersley. London ; Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE, 2011. 214 p. HKBU Library "The literature on social science methods and the issues surrounding them has grown massively and continues to increase. Yet many social scientists are ambivalent about methodology. For some, it plays a central, perhaps even an all-encompassing, role; while, for others, it is desirable only in small amounts, or indeed is regarded as an irrelevance, as a distraction from actually doing research. In this book, Hammersley argues that, in large part, this reflects and is part of a wider problem: the gradual decline of a previously influential academic model of inquiry. This has occurred as a result of ideological challenges and the erosion of the institutional conditions that support academic work. He defends this model, spelling out the demands it places upon social scientists, and examining such issues as the proper role of methodology, the nature of objectivity, the false idea that social scientists should be intellectuals or social critics, the dialectic of academic discussion, the ethics of belief, and the limits of academic freedom. More broadly, he also questions the role of the social research within society and what it means to be a social scientist in the 21st century. Hammersley's book is engagingly written and controversial. It tackles the major issues of contemporary social research methodology head on and is an essential read for anyone with an interest in this field."-- Publisher's description Social sciences Research Methodology. = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 113064 113064 0 0 lcc 0 H0062 H224 M2011 0 CGB 284864 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-10-17 2 0 H62 H224 M 2011 1000360429 2025-10-17 00:00:00 C.1 2025-10-17 GBE