Lury, Celia and Wakeford, Nina, eds. (2012) Inventive methods : the happening of the social. Culture, Economy and the Social (CRESC) . London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415574815

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Book
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies
Series Name:	Culture, Economy and the Social (CRESC)
Publisher:	Routledge
Place of Publication:	London
ISBN:	9780415574815
Editor:	Lury, Celia and Wakeford, Nina
Date:	31 May 2012
Number of Pages:	274
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/51005

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