Becoming a Researcher: A Research Companion for the Social Sciences

<h4>Chapter 1 Introduction </h4>What sort of book?<br>Writers’ voices<br>Making a Reading<br>Themes<br>Structure<br><h3>Part 1 - Distinguishing Data - Constructing text</h3><h4>Chapter 2 The Logic of Enquiry</h4>Finding a Place to Stand <br>The Nature of the Social<br>Positivism and Social Values<br>Reflexivity<br>The Logic of Enquiry<br><h4>Chapter 3 Talking with people - Interviewing</h4>Introduction<br>The broad schema<br>Interview texts as ‘ resource’<br>Interviews as social action<br>Power and process in the interview<br>Knowledge and Power<br>Questions and Design<br><h4>Chapter 4 Knowing with Numbers- Questionnaires </h4>Introduction<br>Quantification as Scientific Inquiry<br>The Questionnaire as Scientific Apparatus<br>Constructing the Respondent / Reader<br>Theoretical structuring<br>Deconstruction Using Questionnaires<br><h4>Chapter 5 Being There - Observation</h4>Introduction<br>Action in the Field<br>From Action to Data<br>From Data to Report<br>Conclusion<br><h3>Part 2-Dicing with data – Deconstructing text</h3><h4>Chapter 6 Breaking Down Data – Routes to Interpretation </h4>Introduction<br>From Field to Text<br>Dicing with Data<br>Perhaps not...?<br>Complex Realisms<br>Interpretivist Repertoires<br>Reflexivity and Representation<br><h4>Chapter 7 Worrying at Words – Discourse Analysis</h4>Introduction<br>Transcripts and Summaries<br>Critical?<br>Uncritical?<br>Reference Outside the Text: Circularity of Argument<br>Thought and Language: More Circularity<br>Generalizing<br>Spotting Features<br>Discourse Analysis and Researcher Identity<br><h4>Chapter 8 Pulverizing Policy – Deconstructing Documents</h4>Policy and Process<br>Deconstructing the Text<br>The Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Curriculum<br>Analysing Key Documents<br>The QCA Draft Guidance<br><h3> Part 3 -Data with Destiny - Reconstructing Text</h3><h4>Chapter 9 Writing Research – Authoring Text</h4>Writing and the Real<br>Art and Science<br>Writing the Real<br>Qualitative Empiricism<br>Epistemology<br>Language and the Real: Writing and Postmodernism<br>Audience<br>Reading<br>IntertextualityForm and Genre<br>Knowledge<br><h4>Chapter 10 The Selfish Text – Research and Identity</h4>The Late Modern Self<br>Narrating the Self<br>Postmodern Selves: Agency and Determinism<br>Identity and Social Theory<br>Culture and the Global Perspective<br>The Democratization of Research<br><h3> Chapter 11 Methods and Methodology</h3>What is Methodology?<br>Methodology, the Research Process and Identity<br>Methodology and Legitimacy – Identity and Narrative<br>A Way Forward for Social Research?<br>P.S.