000			01968cam a2200193 a 4500
008			130404s2011 enk b 001 0 eng
020			_a9781849202053
040			_aSDU
050	0	0	_aH62 _bH224 M 2011
100	1		_aHammersley, Martyn. _9191023
245	1	0	_aMethodology : _bwho needs it? / _cMartyn Hammersley.
260			_aLondon ; _aThousand Oaks, CA : _bSAGE, _c2011.
300			_a214 p.
505			_aHKBU Library
520			_a"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
650		0	_aSocial sciences _xResearch _xMethodology.
900			_a = C.1 SDU
942			_cGBE _2lcc
999			_c113064 _d113064