Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences Case Studies from South Africa
Heftet /
2019
/ Engelsk
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781776142750
Publisert
2019-03-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Wits University Press
Høyde
244 mm
Bredde
170 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
456
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Om bidragsyterne
Sumaya Laher is an associate professor in Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand.Angelo Fynn is a senior Psychology lecturer at the University of South Africa.
Sherianne Kramer is a Social Science lecturer at the Amsterdam University College.
Elizabeth Archer is the director of institutional research at the University of the Western Cape.
Brendon Barnes is the head of Department of Psychology at the University of Johannesburg.
Floretta Boonzaier is Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Cape Town.
Brett Bowman is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Kate Cockcroft is a professor of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand
David Edwards is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Rhodes University (part time since retiring in 2010).
Gillian Finchilescu is a professor and chair in the Psychology Department at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Paul J.P. Fouché is an associate professor of Counselling Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Free State in South-Africa.
Thomas Geffen is a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Paul Goldschagg is a Geography and Environmental Studies Education lecturer in the Wits School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Saraswathie Govender is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Limpopo in South Africa.
Lynlee Howard-Payne is a health sciences instructor at Macquarie University and Western Sydney University (The College) in Australia and a research fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Debra Kaminer is an associate professor and Head of Department in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town.
Shose Kessi is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town.
Peace Kiguwa is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Despina Learmonth is affiliated with the University of Cape Town. She serves as a Board Member for Embrace Dignity and runs her own private practice.
Malose Makhubela is a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Johannesburg.
Jacobus Gideon Maree is a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Pretoria.
Solomon Mashegoane is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Limpopo in South Africa.
Saloshni Muthal is a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Kathryn Anne Nel is a professor and counselling psychologist who works in academe.
Michael Pitman is a senior lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand
Tracey Prenter is a clinical psychologist currently employed as an addictions therapist at the South African National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (SANCA).
Kopano Ratele is a professor in the Institute for Social and Health Sciences at the University of South Africa (Unisa) and a researcher in the South African Medical Research Council–Unisa Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit.
Diana Sanchez-Betancourt is a senior researcher with the Democracy and Governance research programme at the Human and Social Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in South Africa.
Jeanette Schmid is a social work practitioner, researcher and educator who has practised in South Africa, Canada, the United States and Switzerland.
Joseph Seabi is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Mohamed Seedat is a professor in the College for Graduate Studies and director of the Institute for Social and Health Sciences at the University of South Africa.
Ann B. Shuttleworth-Edwards is a professor on a research contract in the Department of Psychology at Rhodes University in South Africa.
Goodman Sibeko is a board eligible psychiatrist and a PhD student in the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of Cape Town.
Ian Siemers is a lecturer in Organisational Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Dan J. Stein is a professor and head of the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of Cape Town, and director of the South African Medical Research Council Unit on Risk and Resilience in Mental Disorders.
Lu-Anne Swart is a senior researcher at the University of South Africa (Unisa) Institute for Social and Health Sciences and the South African Medical Research Council–Unisa Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit.
Roelf van Niekerk is a professor and the Head of the Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa.
Elmé Vivier is a PhD candidate at the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership at the University of Pretoria.
Kevin A. Whitehead is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
… an innovative, fascinating and unique book … The editors should be commended for their conceptualisation in bringing together this diversity of views; the contributors have written excellent, state-of-the-art chapters. It is a fi ne book and I recommend it highly! — Desmond Painter, Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University … important and interesting research that contains a broad range of chapters on qualitative and quantitative research designs in the global South … an excellent resource for researchers. — Mary van der Riet, Psychology, School of Applied Human Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Social science researchers in the global South, and in South Africa particularly, utilise research methods in innovative ways in order to respond to contexts characterised by diversity, racial and political tensions, socioeconomic disparities and gender inequalities. These methods often remain undocumented – a gap that this book starts to address. Written by experts from various methodological fields, Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences is a comprehensive collation of original essays and cutting-edge research that demonstrates the variety of novel techniques and research methods available to researchers responding to these context-bound issues. It is particularly relevant for study and research in the fields of applied psychology, sociology, ethnography, biography and anthropology. In addition to their unique combination of conceptual and application issues, the chapters also include discussions on ethical considerations relevant to the method in similar global South contexts. Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences has much to offer to researchers, professionals and others involved in social science research both locally and internationally.
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Social science researchers in the global South, and in South Africa particularly, utilise research methods in innovative ways in order to respond to contexts characterised by diversity, racial and political tensions, socioeconomic disparities and gender inequalities. These methods often remain undocumented – a gap that this book starts to address.
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Tables and figuresPrefaceAcknowledgementsChapter 1 Research as practice: Contextualising applied research in the South African context – Sherianne Kramer, Angelo Fynn and Sumaya LaherSection 1 Quantitative methodsChapter 2 Non-experimental research designs: Investigating the spatial distribution and social ecology of male homicide – Lu-Anne Swart, Sherianne Kramer, Kopano Ratele and Mohamed SeedatChapter 3 Longitudinal designs: The RANCH-SA study – Kate Cockcroft, Paul Goldschagg and Joseph SeabiChapter 4 Establishing factorial validity of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale: A cross-sectional design – Malose Makhubela and Solomon MashegoaneChapter 5 Using the WAIS-III to illustrate test norming strategies for valid cognitive assessment: A non-experimental design – Ann B. Shuttleworth-EdwardsChapter 6 Quasi-experimental designs in applied behavioural health research – Brendon R. BarnesChapter 7 Experimental research: Randomised control trials to evaluate task-shifting interventions – Goodman Sibeko and Dan J. SteinChapter 8 Repeated-measures Factorial Design: Exploring working memory interactions in earworms – Thomas Geffen and Michael PitmanChapter 9 Q Methodology: Patterns of subjectivity in academic misconduct – Gillian Finchilescu and Saloshni MuthalSection 2 Qualitative methodsChapter 10 Systematic case study research in clinical and counselling psychology – David J.A. EdwardsChapter 11 Doing psychobiography: The case of Christiaan Barnard – Roelf van Niekerk, Tracey Prenter and Paul FouchéChapter 12 Narrative research in career counselling: The career construction interview – Jacobus G. MareeChapter 13 Interrogating grounded theory in meaning-making of voluntary medical adult male circumcision for HIV prevention – Lynlee Howard-PayneChapter 14 Feminist approaches: An exploration of women’s gendering experiences – Peace KiguwaChapter 15 The power of critical discourse analysis: Investigating female-perpetrated sex abuse victim discourses – Sherianne KramerChapter 16 Using ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to study racial social categories in radio talk – Kevin A. WhiteheadChapter 17 Autoethnography: Locating the voice of the self in post-apartheid South Africa – Jeanette SchmidChapter 18 Genealogy in practice: Labour, discipline and power in the production of the South African mine worker – Brett Bowman, Ian Siemers and Kevin A. WhiteheadSection 3 Transparadigmatic methodsChapter 19 Transformative mixed methods research in South Africa: Contributions to social justice – Brendon R. BarnesChapter 20 Design research: Developing effective feedback interventions for school-based monitoring – Elizabeth ArcherChapter 21 Appreciative inquiry as transformative methodology: Case studies in health and wellness – Kathryn Nel and Saraswathie GovenderChapter 22 Photovoice methodologies for social justice – Shose Kessi, Debbie Kaminer, Floretta Boonzaier and Despina LearmonthChapter 23 Action and community-based research: Improving local governance practices through the community scorecard – Diana Sanchez-Betancourt and Elmé VivierChapter 24 Trends in social science research in Africa: Rigour, relevance and responsibility – Sumaya Laher, Angelo Fynn and Sherianne KramerContributorsIndex
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… an innovative, fascinating and unique book … The editors should be commended for their conceptualisation in bringing together this diversity of views; the contributors have written excellent, state-of-the-art chapters. It is a fine book and I highly recommend it! – Desmond Painter, Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781776142750
Publisert
2019-03-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Wits University Press
Høyde
244 mm
Bredde
170 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
456
Forfatter
Om bidragsyterne
Sumaya Laher is an associate professor in Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand.Angelo Fynn is a senior Psychology lecturer at the University of South Africa.
Sherianne Kramer is a Social Science lecturer at the Amsterdam University College.
Elizabeth Archer is the director of institutional research at the University of the Western Cape.
Brendon Barnes is the head of Department of Psychology at the University of Johannesburg.
Floretta Boonzaier is Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Cape Town.
Brett Bowman is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Kate Cockcroft is a professor of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand
David Edwards is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Rhodes University (part time since retiring in 2010).
Gillian Finchilescu is a professor and chair in the Psychology Department at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Paul J.P. Fouché is an associate professor of Counselling Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Free State in South-Africa.
Thomas Geffen is a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Paul Goldschagg is a Geography and Environmental Studies Education lecturer in the Wits School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Saraswathie Govender is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Limpopo in South Africa.
Lynlee Howard-Payne is a health sciences instructor at Macquarie University and Western Sydney University (The College) in Australia and a research fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Debra Kaminer is an associate professor and Head of Department in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town.
Shose Kessi is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town.
Peace Kiguwa is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Despina Learmonth is affiliated with the University of Cape Town. She serves as a Board Member for Embrace Dignity and runs her own private practice.
Malose Makhubela is a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Johannesburg.
Jacobus Gideon Maree is a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Pretoria.
Solomon Mashegoane is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Limpopo in South Africa.
Saloshni Muthal is a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Kathryn Anne Nel is a professor and counselling psychologist who works in academe.
Michael Pitman is a senior lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand
Tracey Prenter is a clinical psychologist currently employed as an addictions therapist at the South African National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (SANCA).
Kopano Ratele is a professor in the Institute for Social and Health Sciences at the University of South Africa (Unisa) and a researcher in the South African Medical Research Council–Unisa Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit.
Diana Sanchez-Betancourt is a senior researcher with the Democracy and Governance research programme at the Human and Social Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in South Africa.
Jeanette Schmid is a social work practitioner, researcher and educator who has practised in South Africa, Canada, the United States and Switzerland.
Joseph Seabi is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Mohamed Seedat is a professor in the College for Graduate Studies and director of the Institute for Social and Health Sciences at the University of South Africa.
Ann B. Shuttleworth-Edwards is a professor on a research contract in the Department of Psychology at Rhodes University in South Africa.
Goodman Sibeko is a board eligible psychiatrist and a PhD student in the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of Cape Town.
Ian Siemers is a lecturer in Organisational Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Dan J. Stein is a professor and head of the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of Cape Town, and director of the South African Medical Research Council Unit on Risk and Resilience in Mental Disorders.
Lu-Anne Swart is a senior researcher at the University of South Africa (Unisa) Institute for Social and Health Sciences and the South African Medical Research Council–Unisa Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit.
Roelf van Niekerk is a professor and the Head of the Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa.
Elmé Vivier is a PhD candidate at the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership at the University of Pretoria.
Kevin A. Whitehead is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.