| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 316 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-307) and index. |
| Contents |
Preliminaries; Contents; Tables and figures; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1 Introduction: the Third Path; Part I Formative discourses; 2 Value discourse and the object of inquiry; 3 Narrative cultures and inquiry; 4 The conceptual possibilities of social theoretical discourse; 5 The core of explanation and interpretation as formative discourse; Part II Practices of inquiry; 6 Discursive hybrids of practice: an introductory schema; 7 Generalizing practices of inquiry; 8 Particularizing practices of inquiry; 9 The prospects for inquiry; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Cultures of Inquiry provides a unique overview of research methodologies in social science, historical and cultural studies. Describing eight interconnected methodologies that transcend present-day disciplinary and interdisciplinary boundaries, it moves beyond the objectivism/relativism debate in the philosophy and sociology of knowledge by showing how alternative research practices are formed. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Historical sociology -- Methodology.
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Historical sociology -- Methodology. |
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Historical sociology. |
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Historical sociology -- Research -- Methodology.
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Research. |
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Methodology. |
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Knowledge, Sociology of.
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Knowledge, Sociology of. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hall, John R. Cultures of inquiry. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1999 0521642205 (DLC) 98039046 (OCoLC)40753223 |
| ISBN |
0511007310 (electronic book) |
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9780511007316 (electronic book) |
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9780521642200 (hardback) |
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0521642205 (hardback) |
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9780511489372 (electronic book) |
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0511489374 (electronic book) |
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0521659884 (paperback) |
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9780521659888 |
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