This book makes the case for a pragmatist approach to the practice of social inquiry and knowledge production. Through diverse examples from multiple disciplines, contributors explore the power of pragmatism to inform a practice of inquiry that is democratic, community-centred, problem-oriented and
The Body of Knowledge: Fieldwork and Conceptualization in Social Inquiry
β Scribed by Kornelia Engert
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2022
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 231
- Series
- Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on transcription
Acknowledgements
1 Research unsettled: bodies of knowledge in social inquiry
2 Grounds of fieldwork: making experiences, taking records, filing the social
3 Talk-at-hand: conversational spaces for handling conceptual objects
4 Shops of writing and the practice of self-review
5 How bodies attach to conceptual objects: from βcareersβ of facts to fields and shops of inquiry
Index
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