Accountability in Social Research Issues and Debates /

• Main Author: Romm, Norma R. A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Business.; Management science.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Social Sciences, general.; Sociology, general.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Business and Management, general.

In this book I have concentrated on drawing attention to various conceptions of accountability that might be brought to bear in judging the practice of social research. Much of the book is organized around making explicit the assumptions that influence what counts as “proper” research in society, in...

Table of Contents:

• The Practice of Social Science: Implications for Researcher Accountability
• A Reconsideration of Constructivism: Discursive Accountability Explored
• Exploring Experimentation
• Exploring Survey Research
• Exploring the Ethnographic Study of Lives
• Exploring Action Research
• Conclusion: Accounting for Different Conceptions of Accountability in Social Research.