"In Search of β¦": New Methodological Approaches to Youth Research
β Scribed by Airi-Alina Allaste, Katrin Tiidenberg
- Publisher
- Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 332
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This collection of fifteen methodological texts by a group of thirty international youth and social researchers is a polyphony of scholarly voices advancing the field of qualitative inquiry in youth studies. The book homes in on ways of adapting, remixing and reconsidering qualitative methods in order to better serve youth researchers in the twenty-first century. The texts included in this collection offer honest and open accounts of searching for, assembling, testing, and rejecting creative, well-known, or unconventional techniques from various methodical homes.
As is emphasized in the title, this is not so much an overview as an inquiry into conducting youth research in an environment that is constantly transforming. Researchers are always seeking out the best ways to capture and (co)-produce meaning that can be used for the greater good. This book offers fresh interpretations of, and feedback on, inventive combinations of methods, research questions and theoretical frameworks. It will be of interest to all who work in youth studies and sociology, and particularly useful to postgraduate students, junior scholars, and established researchers seeking to branch out into new terrain.
β¦ Table of Contents
Cover
Front Matter
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: In Search of Inventive Methods in Youth Research
PART I - In Search of Multiplicity: Interdisciplinarity and (Re)mix
1. Conducting Online Focus Groups in Different Cultures
2. Understanding the Notion of βNet Generationβ: The Use of Collage in Young Peopleβs Descriptions of their Own Age Group
3. Immigrant Youth and Social Networks: Towards an Individual Approach
4. Beyond Freeze-Frame Pictures? Using Methodological Triangulation to Understand New Youth Sports Cultures in Flux
5. A Comparative Approach to Conducting Case Studies on Youth Political Participation
PART II - In Search of Dialogue: Participatory Research
and Ethnography
6. Polyphonic Ethos in Team Research: Lessons from the World Social
7. Magic Moments with Youth as Participants in Research
8. Juggling Participatory Methods in the School Context: Lessons Learnt from a Study on Health Representations in Young Peopleβs Virtual Space
9. Exploring First Ethnographic Fieldwork Material
PART III - In Search of Stories: Narrative and Biography
10. Online Risks: Adapting an Interactive Dialogical Narrative Method for Studying the Process of Meaning Making by Teenagers
in the Focus Group Interview Context
11. Autobiography as a Methodological Approach in Youth Research
12. Great Faith in Surfaces: Visual Narrative Analysis of Selfies
PART IV - In Search of a Mindset: Epistemologies and Frameworks
13. (Re)searching Post-Socialist Rural Youth: Towards a Nuanced Understanding
14. Learning from Experience: An Example of Youth Ethnography And Reflexive Research Practice
15. Citizenship of Russian Youth: The Search for an Effective Methodology
Contributors
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