Critical Strategies for Social Research

Dr. William K. Carroll is one of Canada's leading sociologists. He is professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria. His main areas of interest are political economy, corporate power structures, social movements, theory and ideology, and Canadian society.

• PrefaceIntroductionPart 1: Knowledge, Power, And Social ResearchPart 1A: Rediscovering the Critical Edge in Social AnalysisChapter 1 Theses on Feuerbach, Karl MarxChapter 2 Whose Side Are We On?, Howard S. BeckerChapter 3 Social Justice and Sociology: Agendas for the Twenty-First Century, Joe R. FeaginPart 1B: Steps toward Critical InquiryChapter 4 On Intellectual Craftsmanship, C. Wright MillsChapter 5 Methods from the Margins, Sandra Kirby and Kate McKennaChapter 6 Twenty-Five Indigenous Projects, Linda Tuhiwai SmithChapter 7 Toward an Emancipatory Methodology for Peace Research, Abigail FullerPart 2: Five Critical Research StrategiesPart 2A: Making Connections, Unmasking Relations: Dialectical Social AnalysisChapter 8 Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada, Jamie Swift, Jacqueline M. Davies, Robert G. Clarke, and Michael S.J. CzernyChapter 9 The Principles of Dialectics, David HarveyChapter 10 Why Dialectics? Why Now? Or, How to Study the Communist Future inside the Capitalist Present, Bertell OllmanChapter 11 Explaining Global Poverty: A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approach, Branwen Gruffydd JonesPart 2B: Problematizing the Everyday World: Institutional EthnographyChapter 12 Theory ""in"" Everyday Life, Marie Campbell and Frances GregorChapter 13 Ethnography, Institutions, and the Problematic of the Everyday World, Peter R. GrahameChapter 14 Institutional Ethnography: Using Interviews to Investigate Ruling Relations, Marjorie L. DeVault and Liza McCoyChapter 15 Institutional Ethnography and Experience as Data, Marie L. CampbellPart 2C: Subverting Dominant Discourses: Critical Discourse AnalysisChapter 16 Postmodernism and Deconstructionism, Norman K. DenzinChapter 17 Two Lectures: Lecture One: January 7, 1976, Michel FoucaultChapter 18 Discovering Discourses, Tackling Texts, Ian ParkerChapter 19 The Critical Analysis of Discourse, Lilie Chouliaraki and Norman FaircloughPart 2D: Inquiry as Empowerment: Participatory Action ResearchChapter 20 Local Knowledge, Cogenerative Research, and Narrativity, Davydd J. Greenwood and Morten LevinChapter 21 Community-Based Participatory Research: Aspects of the Concept Relevant for Practice, Verna St. DenisChapter 22 Community Action Research, Marge Reitsma-Street and Leslie BrownChapter 23 Power and Knowledge, John Gaventa and Andrea CornwallPart 2E: Social Inquiry as Communicative Reason: Toward a Public SociologyChapter 24 The Promise, C. Wright MillsChapter 25 Exploring the Relevance of Critical Theory for Action Research: Emancipatory Action Research in the Footsteps of Jürgen Habermas, Stephen KemmisChapter 26 The ""Project of Modernity"" and the Parameters for a Critical Sociology: An Argument with Illustrations from Medical Sociology, Graham ScamblerChapter 27 Emancipatory Politics, Critical Evaluation, and Government Policy, Madine VanderPlaatConclusion Appendix: Workshops to Illustrate Critical Research Strategies in Practice

I most like the way this book organizes the field of critical research by presenting five strategies. This framework sets up useful opportunities for comparison of research perspectives. There certainly is a need for a critical reader on research strategies."" - Mary-Beth Raddon, Brock University