Questions about change in social and personal life are a feature of many accounts of the contemporary world While theories of social change abound, discussions about how tresearch it are much less common This book provides a timely guide tqualitative methodologies that investigate processes of personal, generational, and historical change
The authors showcase a range of methods that explore temporality and the dynamic relations between past, present, and future Through case studies, they review six methodological traditions: memory work, oral/life history, qualitative longitudinal research, ethnography, inter-generational and follow-up studies It illustrates how these research approaches are translated intresearch projects and considers the practical as well as the theoretical and ethical challenges they pose Research methods are alsthe product of times and places, and this book keeps tthe fore the cultural and historical context in which these methods developed, the theoretical traditions on which they draw, and the empirical questions they address
Researching Social Change is an invaluable resource for researchers and graduate students across the social sciences whare interested in understanding and researching social change
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