The Politics of Field Research: Sociology Beyond Enlightenment

by David Silverman

What can or should social research offer to funding agencies, to social groups, to the researcher, and to the subjects of the research? How does research in the "field" differ from other forms of social research? In The Politics of Field Research an international team of distinguished researchers draw on their extensive fieldwork experience to address these and other fundamental questions. They explore the political and philosophical context of social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803982267
• ISBN13: 9780803982260
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.