Methodology: Who Needs It?

by Martyn Hammersley

In this book, Martyn Hammersley argues that many social scientists are ambivalent about methodology because of a wider problem: the gradual decline of a previously influential academic model of inquiry. This has occurred as a result of ideological challenges and the erosion of the institutional conditions that support academic work. He defends this model, spelling out the demands it places upon social scientists, and examining such issues as the proper...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849202052
• ISBN13: 9781849202053
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 9.6"