Feminist Methodologies for Critical Researchers: Bridging Differences

✍ Scribed by Joey Sprague

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 303
• Series: The Gender Lens
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This accessible text on social research methodology teaches students of sociology and related disciplines how standard methods can be adapted toward critical ends. The second edition has been updated throughout to incorporate the latest critical scholarship, enhanced discussion of qualitative methods, new material on global issues, sex/sexuality/gender, new discussion of intersectionality, how social media can shape research, and more.

Author Joey Sprague describes and evaluates a wide array of methodological options—from quantitative to qualitative—and explores the links between epistemology and methodology. She proposes a program to overcome bias in standard methodologies and offers practical suggestions that can be used effectively by all progressive researchers. The second edition of Feminist Methodology for Critical Researchers is of value to scholars across disciplines and an essential text or supplement for methods classes.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Series Editors’ Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Field of Vision
Chapter 2. Seeing through Science: Epistemologies
Chapter 3. Authority and Power
Chapter 4. How Feminists Count: Critical Strategies for Quantitative Methods
Chapter 5. Qualitative Shifts: Feminist Strategies in Field Research and Interviewing
Chapter 6. Whose Questions? Whose Answers?
Chapter 7. Changing Sociology, Changing the World
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author