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" Inventive methods : "
edited by Celia Lury and Nina Wakeford
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BL
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628338
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Inventive methods : : the happening of the social /\ edited by Celia Lury and Nina Wakeford
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2012
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Culture, economy, and the social
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xiii, 269 p. :: ill. ;; 25 cm
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9780415574815
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: 0415574811
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: 9780203854921 (ebook)
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: 0203854926 (ebook)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction: a perpetual inventory / Celia Lury and Nina Wakeford -- Anecdote / Mike Michael -- Category / Evelyn Ruppert -- Configuration / Lucy Suchman -- Experiment : abstract experimentalism / Steven Brown -- Experiment : the experiment in living / Noortje Marres -- List / Andrea Philips -- Number / Helen Verran -- Pattern / Janis Jefferies -- Pattern / Paul Stenner -- Photo-image / Vikki Bell -- Phrase / Matthew Fuller and Olga Gurionova -- Population / Cori Hayden -- Probes / Kirsten Boehner, William Gaver and Andy Boucher -- Screen / AbdouMaliq Simone -- Set / Adrian Mackenzie -- Speculation / Luciana Parisi -- Tape recorder / Les Back
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"Social and cultural research has changed dramatically in the last few years in response to changing conceptions of the empirical, an intensification of interest in interdisciplinary work, and the growing need to communicate with diverse users and audiences. Methods texts, however, have not kept pace with these changes. This volume provides a set of new approaches for the investigation of the contemporary world. Building on the increasing importance of methodologies that cut across disciplines, more than twenty expert authors explain the utility of 'devices' for social and cultural research - their essays cover such diverse devices as the list, the pattern, the event, the photograph, the tape recorder and the anecdote. This fascinating collection stresses the open-endedness of the social world, and explores the ways in which each device requires the user to reflect critically on the value and status of contemporary ways of making knowledge. With a range of genres and styles of writing, each chapter presents the device as a hinge between theory and practice, ontology and epistemology, and explores whether and how methods can be inventive. The book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of sociology and cultural studies"--p. [i]
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Social sciences-- Research-- Methodology
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300.72
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H62.I678 2012
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Lury, Celia
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Wakeford, Nina
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