Roger Gomm
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701412 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Gomm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Gomm |
| SIGNATURE | GOMM R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
SATs, sets and allegations of bias: The allocation of 11‐year‐old students to mathematics sets in some English schools in 2015. A response to Connolly et al., 2019
This is a methodological critique of research by the Best Practice in Grouping Students (BPGS) project claiming teacher bias in allocating students to first‐year secondary school mathematics teaching sets ( British Educational Research Journal , 45 (4), 873–879). The research assumes that bias could be shown by non‐random relationships between ‘misallocations’ to sets and memberships of gender, ethnic and/or socio‐economic subgroups. This paper q…
Challenging the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide: Explorations in Case-focused Causal Analysis
This title offers an exploration of case-focused methods as a means of bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide and the key methodological issues. This book challenges the divide between qualitative and quantitative approaches that is now institutionalized within social science. Rather than suggesting the 'mixing' of methods, Challenging the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide provides a thorough interrogation of the arguments and practices chara…
Key Concepts in Social Research Methods
"Did you know that there are at least twenty-two different ways of saying that consciousness is organised, five terms for a regression line and seven for the normal distribution? The ever-expanding field of social research has become inundated with newly invented terms, many of them synonyms. From the more traditional terminology to the very latest expressions, this is the essential guide to understanding the fundamental concepts of social resear…
Social Research Methodology
Unblaming Victims and Creating Heroes: Reputational management in sociological writing
(2001). Unblaming Victims and Creating Heroes: Reputational management in sociological writing. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 227-247
Case Study Method: Key Issues, Key Texts
Introduction PART ONE: INTRINSIC CASE STUDY AND GENERALIZABILITY The Case Study Method in Social Inquiry - Robert E Stake The Only Generalization Is - Yvonna S Lincoln and Egon G Guba There Is No Generalization Generalizability and the Single Case Study - Robert Donmoyer Increasing the Generalizability of Case Study Research - Janet Ward Schofield Case Study and Generalization - Roger Gomm, Martyn Hammersley and Peter Foster PART TWO: CASE STUDY …
Case Studies as Spurious Evaluations: The Example of Research on Educatioal Inequalities
This article notes that much case study research focusing on educational inequalities is evaluative in character, in the sense that it draws value conclusions. Moreover, the evaluative character of these conclusions is often implicit. We argue that practical evaluation of this kind is inappropriate in research reports. We then discuss the legitimate role that values can play in case study research, notably in providing the basis for identifying i…
A Response to Romm
A reply to Romm, N. (1997) 'Becoming More Accountable: A Comment on Hammersley and Gomm', Sociological Research Online, vol. 2, no. 3, http://www.socresonline.org.uk/2/3/2.html
Bias in Social Research
Accusations of bias are not uncommon in the social sciences. However, the term 'bias' is by no means straightforward in meaning. One problem is that it is ambiguous. Sometimes, it is used to refer to the adoption of a particular perspective from which some things become salient and others merge into the background. More commonly, 'bias' refers to systematic error: deviation from a true score, the latter referring to the valid measurement of some …
Educational Research: Current Issues
A response to Gillborn and Drew on ‘race’, class and school effects
Figuring Out Ethnic Equity
This paper is a response to Barry Troyna's “Underachievers or Underrated” , British Educational Research Journal, Volume 17, No. 4, 1991. It draws attention both to the inappropriateness of the model of ethnic equity which grounds Troyna's claim that Asian pupils are being treated inequitably, and to shortcomings in the way in which Troyna handles numerical data to present them as evidence of this claim
Bargaining from Weakness: Spirit Possession on the South Kenya Coast
Spirit possession has often been represented as a device through which the deprived and the lowly claim attention, respect and material favours. This article accepts that this is so among the Digo of Kenya but argues that in adopting such bargaining positions, Digo women reinforce the social control system which keeps them subservient to men. Parallels are drawn between the role of the possessed among the Digo and similar roles in Western societi…
Harlots and Bachelors: Marital Instability Among the Coastal Digo of Kenya
Coastal Digo men speak of marital instability as their society's greatest social problem. 'Soon', say the men, 'there will be no husbands and wives, only harlots and bachelors'. The rate of marital breakdown in all ages is fairly high (see table i). Over 30 per cent. of wives do not live with their first husbands: a minority over the age of thirty are living with their third or subsequent husbands. There does seem to have
Bargaining from Weakness: Spirit Possession on the South Kenya Coast
Spirit possession has often been represented as a device through which the deprived and the lowly claim attention, respect and material favours. This article accepts that this is so among the Digo of Kenya but argues that in adopting such bargaining positions, Digo women reinforce the social control system which keeps them subservient to men. Parallels are drawn between the role of the possessed among the Digo and similar roles in Western societi…
Bias in Social Research
Accusations of bias are not uncommon in the social sciences. However, the term 'bias' is by no means straightforward in meaning. One problem is that it is ambiguous. Sometimes, it is used to refer to the adoption of a particular perspective from which some things become salient and others merge into the background. More commonly, 'bias' refers to systematic error: deviation from a true score, the latter referring to the valid measurement of some …
Case Studies as Spurious Evaluations: The Example of Research on Educatioal Inequalities
This article notes that much case study research focusing on educational inequalities is evaluative in character, in the sense that it draws value conclusions. Moreover, the evaluative character of these conclusions is often implicit. We argue that practical evaluation of this kind is inappropriate in research reports. We then discuss the legitimate role that values can play in case study research, notably in providing the basis for identifying i…
A response to Gillborn and Drew on ‘race’, class and school effects
Harlots and Bachelors: Marital Instability Among the Coastal Digo of Kenya
Coastal Digo men speak of marital instability as their society's greatest social problem. 'Soon', say the men, 'there will be no husbands and wives, only harlots and bachelors'. The rate of marital breakdown in all ages is fairly high (see table i). Over 30 per cent. of wives do not live with their first husbands: a minority over the age of thirty are living with their third or subsequent husbands. There does seem to have
Figuring Out Ethnic Equity
This paper is a response to Barry Troyna's “Underachievers or Underrated” , British Educational Research Journal, Volume 17, No. 4, 1991. It draws attention both to the inappropriateness of the model of ethnic equity which grounds Troyna's claim that Asian pupils are being treated inequitably, and to shortcomings in the way in which Troyna handles numerical data to present them as evidence of this claim
Unblaming Victims and Creating Heroes: Reputational management in sociological writing
(2001). Unblaming Victims and Creating Heroes: Reputational management in sociological writing. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 227-247
Harlots and Bachelors: Marital Instability Among the Coastal Digo of Kenya
Coastal Digo men speak of marital instability as their society's greatest social problem. 'Soon', say the men, 'there will be no husbands and wives, only harlots and bachelors'. The rate of marital breakdown in all ages is fairly high (see table i). Over 30 per cent. of wives do not live with their first husbands: a minority over the age of thirty are living with their third or subsequent husbands. There does seem to have
Bargaining from Weakness: Spirit Possession on the South Kenya Coast
Spirit possession has often been represented as a device through which the deprived and the lowly claim attention, respect and material favours. This article accepts that this is so among the Digo of Kenya but argues that in adopting such bargaining positions, Digo women reinforce the social control system which keeps them subservient to men. Parallels are drawn between the role of the possessed among the Digo and similar roles in Western societi…
A response to Gillborn and Drew on ‘race’, class and school effects
Figuring Out Ethnic Equity
This paper is a response to Barry Troyna's “Underachievers or Underrated” , British Educational Research Journal, Volume 17, No. 4, 1991. It draws attention both to the inappropriateness of the model of ethnic equity which grounds Troyna's claim that Asian pupils are being treated inequitably, and to shortcomings in the way in which Troyna handles numerical data to present them as evidence of this claim
Educational Research: Current Issues
A Response to Romm
A reply to Romm, N. (1997) 'Becoming More Accountable: A Comment on Hammersley and Gomm', Sociological Research Online, vol. 2, no. 3, http://www.socresonline.org.uk/2/3/2.html
Bias in Social Research
Accusations of bias are not uncommon in the social sciences. However, the term 'bias' is by no means straightforward in meaning. One problem is that it is ambiguous. Sometimes, it is used to refer to the adoption of a particular perspective from which some things become salient and others merge into the background. More commonly, 'bias' refers to systematic error: deviation from a true score, the latter referring to the valid measurement of some …
Case Study Method: Key Issues, Key Texts
Introduction PART ONE: INTRINSIC CASE STUDY AND GENERALIZABILITY The Case Study Method in Social Inquiry - Robert E Stake The Only Generalization Is - Yvonna S Lincoln and Egon G Guba There Is No Generalization Generalizability and the Single Case Study - Robert Donmoyer Increasing the Generalizability of Case Study Research - Janet Ward Schofield Case Study and Generalization - Roger Gomm, Martyn Hammersley and Peter Foster PART TWO: CASE STUDY …
Case Studies as Spurious Evaluations: The Example of Research on Educatioal Inequalities
This article notes that much case study research focusing on educational inequalities is evaluative in character, in the sense that it draws value conclusions. Moreover, the evaluative character of these conclusions is often implicit. We argue that practical evaluation of this kind is inappropriate in research reports. We then discuss the legitimate role that values can play in case study research, notably in providing the basis for identifying i…
Unblaming Victims and Creating Heroes: Reputational management in sociological writing
(2001). Unblaming Victims and Creating Heroes: Reputational management in sociological writing. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 227-247
Social Research Methodology
Key Concepts in Social Research Methods
"Did you know that there are at least twenty-two different ways of saying that consciousness is organised, five terms for a regression line and seven for the normal distribution? The ever-expanding field of social research has become inundated with newly invented terms, many of them synonyms. From the more traditional terminology to the very latest expressions, this is the essential guide to understanding the fundamental concepts of social resear…
Challenging the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide: Explorations in Case-focused Causal Analysis
This title offers an exploration of case-focused methods as a means of bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide and the key methodological issues. This book challenges the divide between qualitative and quantitative approaches that is now institutionalized within social science. Rather than suggesting the 'mixing' of methods, Challenging the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide provides a thorough interrogation of the arguments and practices chara…
SATs, sets and allegations of bias: The allocation of 11‐year‐old students to mathematics sets in some English schools in 2015. A response to Connolly et al., 2019
This is a methodological critique of research by the Best Practice in Grouping Students (BPGS) project claiming teacher bias in allocating students to first‐year secondary school mathematics teaching sets ( British Educational Research Journal , 45 (4), 873–879). The research assumes that bias could be shown by non‐random relationships between ‘misallocations’ to sets and memberships of gender, ethnic and/or socio‐economic subgroups. This paper q…
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