Includes bibliographical references.

Preface

Introduction

PART 1: KNOWLEDGE, POWER, AND SOCIAL RESEARCH

Part 1A: REDISCOVERING THE CRITICAL EDGE IN SOCIAL ANALYSIS

Chapter 1 Theses on Feuerbach / Karl Marx

Chapter 2 Whose Side Are We On? / Howard S. Becker

Chapter 3 Social Justice and Sociology: Agendas for the Twenty-First Century / Joe R. Feagin

Part 1B: STEPS TOWARD CRITICAL INQUIRY

Chapter 4 On Intellectual Craftsmanship / C. Wright Mills

Chapter 5 Methods from the Margins / Sandra Kirby and Kate McKenna

Chapter 6 Twenty-Five Indigenous Projects / Linda Tuhiwai Smith

Chapter 7 Toward an Emancipatory Methodology for Peace Research / Abigail Fuller

PART 2: FIVE CRITICAL RESEARCH STRATEGIES

Part 2A: MAKING CONNECTIONS, UNMASKING RELATIONS: DIALECTICAL SOCIAL ANALYSIS

Chapter 8 Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada / Jamie Swift, Jacqueline M. Davies, Robert G. Clarke, and Michael S.J. Czerny

Chapter 9 The Principles of Dialectics / David Harvey

Chapter 10 Why Dialectics? Why Now? Or, How to Study the Communist Future inside the Capitalist Present / Bertell Ollman

Chapter 11 Explaining Global Poverty: A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approach / Branwen Gruffydd Jones

Part 2B: PROBLEMATIZING THE EVERYDAY WORLD: INSTITUTIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY

Chapter 12 Theory “in” Everyday Life / Marie Campbell and Frances Gregor

Chapter 13 Ethnography, Institutions, and the Problematic of the Everyday World / Peter R. Grahame

Chapter 14 Institutional Ethnography: Using Interviews to Investigate Ruling Relations / Marjorie L. DeVault and Liza McCoy

Chapter 15 Institutional Ethnography and Experience as Data / Marie L. Campbell

Part 2C: SUBVERTING DOMINANT DISCOURSES: CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Chapter 16 Postmodernism and Deconstructionism / Norman K. Denzin

Chapter 17 Two Lectures: Lecture One: January 7, 1976 / Michel Foucault

Chapter 18 Discovering Discourses, Tackling Texts / Ian Parker

Chapter 19 The Critical Analysis of Discourse / Lilie Chouliaraki and Norman Fairclough

Part 2D: INQUIRY AS EMPOWERMENT: PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH

Chapter 20 Local Knowledge, Cogenerative Research, and Narrativity / Davydd J. Greenwood and Morten Levin

Chapter 21 Community-Based Participatory Research: Aspects of the Concept Relevant for Practice / Verna St. Denis

Chapter 22 Community Action Research / Marge Reitsma-Street and Leslie Brown

Chapter 23 Power and Knowledge / John Gaventa and Andrea Cornwall

Part 2E: SOCIAL INQUIRY AS COMMUNICATIVE REASON: TOWARD A PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY

Chapter 24 The Promise / C. Wright Mills

Chapter 25 Exploring the Relevance of Critical Theory for Action Research: Emancipatory Action Research in the Footsteps of Jürgen Habermas / Stephen Kemmis

Chapter 26 The “Project of Modernity” and the Parameters for a Critical Sociology: An Argument with Illustrations from Medical Sociology / Graham Scambler

Chapter 27 Emancipatory Politics, Critical Evaluation, and Government Policy / Madine VanderPlaat

Conclusion

Appendix: Workshops to Illustrate Critical Research Strategies in Practice

"Edited by Canadian sociologist William K. Carroll, this thought-provoking volume is designed for research methods courses in sociology and social sciences. Critical Strategies for Social Research explores ways in which several key research strategies bring an emancipatory dimension to social analysis. The new approaches recognize that social analysis is a form of knowledge production that takes place in a human-constructed world marked by injustice and persistent inequality. Carroll considers five influential and productive strategies of inquiry: Dialectical Social Analysis; Institutional Ethnography; Participatory Action Research; Critical Discourse Analysis; Social Inquiry as Communicative Reason." (Book Cover)