Paradigm wars
Some thoughts on a personal and public trajectory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12595293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ann Oakley (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 247-254 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Social Research Methodology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1364-5579 • E-ISSN: 1464-5300 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/136455799295041 |
| OpenAlex | W2108776107 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
It is often said that research methods are a matter of rational choice: it is the research question, or problem, which ought to dictate the method to be used. This may be true to some extent, but there are other more powerful reasons why social scientists choose the research methods they do. Underlying philosophies of social science and long-held and much cherished tenets about epistemology are prime among these. Moreover, such an interplay between epistemological position and methodological decision is enormously affected by social context. We pay attention to what other social scientists are doing, to fashions in both methodology and topic - the things it is considered proper for social scientists to study; we are affected by research funding and publishing opportunities, by the material resources available to support our work, by intraprofessional rivalries and difference, and by politics - both in its commonly understood sense and as applied to power relations between academics and those who take part in research. Apart from what we do, there is the whole issue of how others construct our work. And this is only some of what goes on. In short, it is a very complicated business
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Why Counting Counts
Quantitative Audience Research
Data and Responsibility
Unsustainable power distribution? Women Leaders in Polish Academia
The contributions of scientific realism and critical realism to realist evaluation
Social work and sociology/sociology and social work
Paradigm shift in religious education
Connecting puzzle pieces
Some implications of critical realism for mental health research
Developing a Syllabus for a Mixed‐Methods Research Course
The Research Question in Social Research
Moments, Mixed Methods, and Paradigm Dialogs
The Lady Knows the Recipe
It's good to be able to talk’
The sociology of childbirth
Feminism, power and politics in policing rape research
Children as Peer Researchers
Contesting the gendering of methodology
Commentary
Exploring and Expanding on Pluralism in Qualitative Research in Psychology
Radical Methodological Openness and Method as Politics
Response to Quoting and Counting
Trying to do more Good than Harm in Policy and Practice
Interviewing Women Again
The Women's Movement and British Journal Articles, 1950-2004
Realities and Perceptions of Methodological Teaching and Debates in Post-War British Sociology
A multidimensional view? Evaluating the different and combined contributions of diaries and interviews in an exploration of asexual identities and intimacies
Participant selection as a conscious research method
Fictive Reality
Producing Ethnographies
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,3 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2024 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |