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  • METHODOLOGICAL CONCEPTS
    MARTYN HAMMERSLEY
    Methodological Concepts: A Critical Guide clarifies many key terms and issues in social research methodology. It outlines the conventional meanings of these terms, but also addresses their contentious character. The aim is to offer interpretations of them that provide a coherent conception of the nature of social science. This book is premised on the idea that more clarity abou...

    $919.00

  • CLASSROOM ETHNOGRAPHY
    MARTYN HAMMERSLEY
    Originally published in 1990, Classroom Ethnography examines the interplay between empirical research and methodological reflection. It explores the nature, the methods, the role, and the limitations of ethnographic research on school classrooms. Beginning with examples of Hammersley’s empirical research, the book then moves on to a number of reflections about the methodology o...

    $2,200.00

  • LIFE IN SCHOOL
    MARTYN HAMMERSLEY / PETER WOODS
    There can be little doubt that pupils’ own interpretations of what happens in their schools represent a crucial link in the educational chain. We need to understand how pupils respond to different forms of pedagogy and school organization, and why they respond in the ways they do, in order to increase the effectiveness of our schooling. In the ten years prior to first publicati...

    $539.00

  • ETHNOGRAPHY
    MARTYN HAMMERSLEY / PAUL ATKINSON
    Now in its fourth edition, this leading introduction to ethnography has been thoroughly updated and substantially rewritten. The volume offers a systematic introduction to ethnographic principles and practice, and includes a new chapter on ‘Ethnography in the digital world’. The authors argue that ethnography is best understood as a reflexive process. This requires recognition ...

    $1,099.00

  • ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: WHAT'S WRONG WITH ETHNOGRAPHY? (1992)
    MARTYN HAMMERSLEY
    Originally published 1992 What's Wrong With Ethnography? provides a fresh look at the rationale for and distinctiveness of ethnographic research in sociology, education and related fields. Relativism, critical theory, the uniqueness of the case study and the distinction between qualitative and quantitative research are all examined and found wanting as a basis for informed ethn...

    $859.00

  • ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS: THE DILEMMA OF QUALITATIVE METHOD (1989)
    MARTYN HAMMERSLEY
    Originally published in 1989, The Dilemma of Qualitative Method is a stimulating guide to the discussion of qualitative versus quantitative approaches to social research, originated in nineteenth-century debates about the relationship between the methods of history and natural science. One of the key theorists in this area was Chicago sociologist Herbert Blumer. The book analys...

    $859.00

  • READING ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH
    MARTYN HAMMERSLEY
    Provides a practical guide to the critical reading of ethnographic studies: discussing in detail how to identify the main arguments and what is involved in making an assessment of such studies. ...

    $1,559.00

  • THE LIMITS OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
    MARTYN HAMMERSLEY
    What forms of knowledge can social science claim to produce? Does it employ causal analysis, and if so what does this entail? What role should values play in the work of social scientists?  These are the questions addressed in this book. They are closely interrelated, and the answers offered here challenge many currently prevailing assumptions. They carry implications both for ...

    $1,066.00

  • WHAT'S WRONG WITH ETHNOGRAPHY?
    MARTYN HAMMERSLEY
    This stimulating and refreshing study, written by one of the leading commentators in the field, provides novel answers to these crucial questions. "What's Wrong With Ethnography provides a fresh look at the rationale for and distinctiveness of ethnographic research in sociology, education and related fields, and succeeds in slaying a number of currently fashionable sacred cows....

    $1,279.00

  • THE MYTH OF RESEARCH-BASED POLICY AND PRACTICE
    MARTYN HAMMERSLEY
    Martyn Hammersley′s provocative new text interrogates the complex relationship between research, policymaking and practice, against the background of the evidence-based practice movement. Addressing a series of probing questions, this book reflects on the challenge posed by the idea that social research can directly serve policymaking and practice. Key questions explored includ...

    $1,142.77

  • ETHICS IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
    MARTYN HAMMERSLEY / ANNA TRAIANOU
    All social researchers need to think about ethical issues. Their salience has recently been increased by the pressures of ethical regulation, particularly in the case of qualitative research. But what are ethical issues? And how should they be approached? These are not matters about which there is agreement. Ethics in Qualitative Research explores conflicting philosophical assu...

    $1,099.84

  • METHODOLOGY: WHO NEEDS IT?
    MARTYN HAMMERSLEY
    The literature on social science methods and the issues surrounding them has grown massively and continues to increase. Yet many social scientists are ambivalent about methodology. For some, it plays a central, perhaps even an all-encompassing, role; while, for others, it is desirable only in small amounts, or indeed is regarded as an irrelevance, as a distraction from actually...

    $1,066.00

  • QUESTIONING QUALITATIVE INQUIRY
    MARTYN HAMMERSLEY
    Is qualitative research in crisis? In Questioning Qualitative Inquiry Martyn Hammersley raises fundamental questions about the current state of qualitative social research. He examines some of the changes that have taken place within it over the past fifty years, suggesting that the move away from natural science as a model, and towards an appeal to literature and art, involves...

    $1,099.84

  • TAKING SIDES IN SOCIAL RESEARCH
    MARTYN HAMMERSLEY
    In the past it was generally taken for granted that the goal of social research was the production of objective knowledge; and that this required a commitment to value neutrality. In more recent times, however, both these ideals have come to be challenged, and it is often argued that all research is inevitably political in its assumptions and effects. In this major contribution...

    $1,239.00

  • EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, POLICYMAKING AND PRACTICE
    MARTYN HAMMERSLEY
    `This valuable book addresses an important current issues for education research in developed countries - the relationship between research on the one hand and policy-making and education practice on the other′ - Stephen Gorard, Cardiff University, British Journal of Education Studies `Martyn Hammersley has produced a remarkably complete analysis of the strengths and weaknesses...

    $1,099.84

  • RESEARCHING SCHOOL EXPERIENCE
    MARTYN HAMMERSLEY
    There is a tendency in much educational thinking to view pupils in passive terms, as the material on which schools operate. This damaging view is challenged here. Significant recent research shows the effects of changing educational conditions on the experience of teaching and learning in schools. By redressing the balance and acknowledging the affective side of pupils and thei...

    $1,259.00

  • DILEMMA QUALITATIVE METHOD
    MARTYN HAMMERSLEY
    First Published in 1990. Originally published in 1989, The Dilemma of Qualitative Method is a stimulating guide to the discussion of qualitative versus quantitative approaches to social research, originated in nineteenth-century debates about the relationship between the methods of history and natural science. One of the key theorists in this area was Chicago sociologist Herber...

    $1,259.00

  • CONSTRUCTING EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY
    PETER FOSTER / ROGER GOMM / MARTYN HAMMERSLEY
    The issue of educational opportunity has long been of public concern and a major focus for eduational research. As a result, there is now a substantial body of research findings in this field, both quantitative and qualitative.; This work relates to various levels of the educational system and to different categories of student, but particularly social class, gender, ethnicity ...

    $1,319.00

  • MEDIA BIAS IN REPORTING SOCIAL RESEARCH?
    MARTYN HAMMERSLEY
    In recent years, the importance of disseminating the findings of social research has been given increased emphasis. The most effective way in which this can be done is via the mass media. However, there are frequent complaints that media coverage of social and educational research is very limited and often distorted. Through a detailed analysis of a particular case about ethnic...

    $1,099.00

  • CURRICULUM PRACTICE
    HAMMERSLEY, MARTYN / HARGREAVES, ANDY
    When first published this book was one of the first collections of empirical research in the area of the knowledge transmitted in schools and the responses of students to it. It includes studies of the histories of particular school subjects and of how the knowledge they embody is presented in the classroom. Attention is also given to the effects of gender stereotypes among tea...

    $1,299.00