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How to do Social Science that Matters
This holistic How to guide provides practical advice on conducting meaningful research within the social sciences, focusing on practices which are sensitive and bespoke. Mapping out the field and inviting further exploration, its insights reflect lessons from a wide variety of social science research projects, all of which have crucial epistemological and methodological consequences.
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Contents
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This holistic How to guide provides practical advice on conducting meaningful research within the social sciences, focusing on practices which are sensitive and bespoke. Mapping out the field and inviting further exploration, its insights reflect lessons from a wide variety of social science research projects, all of which have crucial epistemological and methodological consequences.
Drawing on diverse experiences of international and interdisciplinary scholars, How to do Social Science that Matters presents methodology as a result of choices and stances related to values, context, and research interests. Each chapter focuses on one particular perspective, considering relationships, systemic inequalities, mutual meanings, and heterodoxy. A vast range of techniques are employed to conceptualise meaningful research methods, from ethnographies to poetry. Ultimately, this How To guide foregrounds the importance of impactful social science in peacemaking and building understanding.
Centring a truly innovative perspective on social science analysis, this book is a crucial resource for students and scholars of management, organisation studies and research methods. It also appeals to those across the social sciences who wish to learn more about crafting purposeful and sensitive methodology.
Drawing on diverse experiences of international and interdisciplinary scholars, How to do Social Science that Matters presents methodology as a result of choices and stances related to values, context, and research interests. Each chapter focuses on one particular perspective, considering relationships, systemic inequalities, mutual meanings, and heterodoxy. A vast range of techniques are employed to conceptualise meaningful research methods, from ethnographies to poetry. Ultimately, this How To guide foregrounds the importance of impactful social science in peacemaking and building understanding.
Centring a truly innovative perspective on social science analysis, this book is a crucial resource for students and scholars of management, organisation studies and research methods. It also appeals to those across the social sciences who wish to learn more about crafting purposeful and sensitive methodology.
Critical Acclaim
‘Cease fire! And if it were time for peace and wisdom in social sciences. No longer the ultimate, universal truth but a polyphony of authentic, territorial voices. Sensitive to the diversity of human experience. Striving for what matters…’
– Jean-Luc Moriceau, Institut Mines-Télécom Business School, France
– Jean-Luc Moriceau, Institut Mines-Télécom Business School, France
Contents
Contents
Foreword: from matters of fact to matters of concern xii
Barbara Czarniawska
Foreword: margins of management xiv
Ghislain Deslandes
Introduction to How to do Social Science that Matters xxvi
Jerzy Kociatkiewicz and Monika Kostera
1 What matters is to understand the story of which we find
ourselves a part 1
Anna Giza
2 Watching for fractures 18
Agata Morgan
3 Educators and critical pedagogy: an antidote to authoritarianism 32
Henry Giroux and William Paul
4 Towards inclusive and decolonised research methods 43
Hanna Szymborska
5 How to make teaching technology a social and human science 55
Michał Krzykawski
6 Everyday ethnographic experience that matters: an
ethnographer’s perspective during fieldwork 65
Joan F. Matamoros Sanin
7 Rhythmanalysis of a café: (in)visibilising foodwork in an
‘open’ kitchen 75
Rajeshwari Chennangodu and George Kandathil
8 Being, becoming and knowing through poetry 88
Aanka Batta and Ilaria Boncori
9 The importance of negotiation in sensemaking 101
Devi Jankowicz
10 On doing heterodox economics 112
Maciej J. Grodzicki
11 Complexity and creativity 124
Alfonso Montuori
12 Help practitioners to think beyond the toolbox 140
Hoda Jebellie
13 On peace and management 153
Ilona Hunek
Index 166
Foreword: from matters of fact to matters of concern xii
Barbara Czarniawska
Foreword: margins of management xiv
Ghislain Deslandes
Introduction to How to do Social Science that Matters xxvi
Jerzy Kociatkiewicz and Monika Kostera
1 What matters is to understand the story of which we find
ourselves a part 1
Anna Giza
2 Watching for fractures 18
Agata Morgan
3 Educators and critical pedagogy: an antidote to authoritarianism 32
Henry Giroux and William Paul
4 Towards inclusive and decolonised research methods 43
Hanna Szymborska
5 How to make teaching technology a social and human science 55
Michał Krzykawski
6 Everyday ethnographic experience that matters: an
ethnographer’s perspective during fieldwork 65
Joan F. Matamoros Sanin
7 Rhythmanalysis of a café: (in)visibilising foodwork in an
‘open’ kitchen 75
Rajeshwari Chennangodu and George Kandathil
8 Being, becoming and knowing through poetry 88
Aanka Batta and Ilaria Boncori
9 The importance of negotiation in sensemaking 101
Devi Jankowicz
10 On doing heterodox economics 112
Maciej J. Grodzicki
11 Complexity and creativity 124
Alfonso Montuori
12 Help practitioners to think beyond the toolbox 140
Hoda Jebellie
13 On peace and management 153
Ilona Hunek
Index 166
