Martyn Hammersley
Auteur van Ethnography: Principles in Practice
Over de Auteur
Martyn Hammersley is Professor of Educational and Social Research at The Open University.
Werken van Martyn Hammersley
Social Research: Philosophy, Politics and Practice (Published in association with The Open University) (1993) 12 exemplaren
Educational Research: Volume One: Current Issues (Published in association with The Open University) (Issues v) (1974) 11 exemplaren
Gender and Ethnicity in Schools: Ethnographic Accounts (Open University Reader - Course E812) (1993) 7 exemplaren
Educational Research and Evidence-based Practice (Published in association with The Open University) (2007) 6 exemplaren
Challenging the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide: Explorations in Case-focused Causal Analysis (2012) 5 exemplaren
Media Bias in Reporting Social Research?: The Case of Reviewing Ethnic Inequalities in Education (Routledge Advances in… (2013) 2 exemplaren
Etnografia métodos de investigación 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1949-08-25
- Geslacht
- male
Leden
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- Werken
- 34
- Leden
- 278
- Populariteit
- #83,543
- Waardering
- 3.7
- Besprekingen
- 2
- ISBNs
- 128
- Talen
- 2
Weirdly enough, in the conclusion, Hammersley pretty much dismisses everything he had written in the previous chapters, dismissing the philosophical strings of qualitative analysis (interpretivism, critical, and constructivism), and then stating, in the next to last paragraph, that "I do not believe that 'qualitative research' is a genuine or useful category - any more than is 'quantitative research'. (99)
So, it seems Hammersley advocates a murky "bag of tools" approach where researchers pick and choose based on what they are researching without holding on to specific nomenclatures. This is not entirely unproblematic and Hammersley concedes his position is not one shared by many. But for Hammerlsey, in the end, it's only and all about producing knowledge (but can you do that in what looks like a theoretical vacuum?).… (meer)