商品簡介
Sociologists Hesse-Biber (Boston College) and Leavy (Stonehill College, Easton, MA), who direct women's studies/gender studies programs, introduce innovative research methods geared to conducting qualitative studies of knowledge not part of the dominant culture or discourse. Following an overview of traditional methods in social science research, international transdisciplinary contributors to 32 chapters present their approaches that employ new tools or older tools in new ways. Approaches based on feminist, socialist, or racial/ethnic critiques of Eurocentric and positivist perspectives on knowledge have resulted in research, e.g., on gender-based medicine, and challenges to Watson and Crick's male worldview that excluded Rosalind Franklin's key role in the discovery of the DNA double helix. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber is Professor of Sociology and Director of Women’s Studies at Boston College. She is also the founder and former Executive Director of the National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education. She has published widely on the impact of sociocultural factors on women’s body image, as well as on feminist and qualitative research methods. She is codeveloper of the software program HyperRESEARCH, a computer-assisted program for analyzing qualitative data, and of the new transcription tool HyperTRANSCRIBE. Her article "Qualitative Approaches to Mixed Methods Practice" was the most downloaded article of 2010 in the journal Qualitative Inquiry.
Patricia Leavy is Associate Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of Gender Studies at Stonehill College. She has published books and articles in the areas of collective memory, mass media, popular culture, body image, feminism, and qualitative research methods, and is regularly cited in the media for her expertise on popular culture, current events, and gender.
