Introduction
The Philosophical Bases of Objectivity and Relativity
Relationism and Dynamic Synthesis
Situated Objectivity in Sociology
Theorized Subjectivity
Social Objects and Realism
Objectivity and Subjectivity in Practice
Objectivity Established? A Trialogue
References
Index
Gayle Letherby is an honorary professor of sociology at the
University of Plymouth and a visiting professor at the University
of Greenwich. Alongside substantive interests in reproductive and
non/parental identities; gender, health, and well-being; loss and
bereavement; travel and transport mobility and working; and gender
and identity within institutions (including universities and
prisons), she has an international reputation in research
methodology. Expertise in this area includes feminist and
qualitative approaches and in auto/biography and creative
reflexivity (with reference to data collection and presentation).
Gayle is currently a coeditor of the SAGE journal Methodological
Innovations and is in the process of editing the Handbook of
Feminist Research for Routledge. In addition to her own research
and writing, Gayle has significant experience in research mentoring
and consultancy both within academia, for grant funding bodies and
for HealthWatch UK. For examples of nonacademic writing and pieces
written for general readership, see
http://arwenackcerebrals.blogspot.co.uk/ and
https://www.abctales.com/user/gletherby
John Scott is an Honorary Professor at the Universities of Essex,
Exeter, and Copenhagen. He was formerly a professor of sociology at
the Universities of Essex and Leicester, and pro-vice-chancellor
for research at the University of Plymouth. He has been president
of the British Sociological Association, Chair of the Sociology
Section of the British Academy, and in 2013 was awarded the CBE for
Services to Social Science. His work covers theoretical sociology,
the history of sociology, elites and social stratification, and
social network analysis. His most recent books include British
Social Theory: Recovering Lost Traditions before 1950 (SAGE, 2018),
Envisioning Sociology. Victor Branford, Patrick Geddes, and the
Quest for Social Reconstruction (with Ray Bromley, SUNY Press,
2013), Objectivity and Subjectivity in Social Research (with Gayle
Letherby and Malcolm Williams, SAGE, 2011).
Malcolm Williams is Professor and Director of the School of Social
Sciences at Cardiff University. Prior to joining Cardiff in 2010,
he was Professor of Social Research Methodology and Head of the
School of Psychosocial Sciences at the University of Plymouth where
he taught for 16 years.
Malcolm has designed and taught modules in the philosophy of social
research for 18 years at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
In these he has introduced a number of innovative pedagogic
techniques, such as Problem Based Learning and ‘Concept Speed
Dating’, in which students take a key idea and move from table to
table attempting to build conceptual links between
ideas.Additionally he has taught many modules and short courses in
social theory, research design, questionnaire design, scaling,
sampling, scientific method and history of science.
Williams has an extensive publishing record in philosophy of social
research, including: Introduction to Philosophy of Social
Research (with Tim May, Routledge, 1996), Knowing the
Social World (with Tim May, OUP, 1998), Science and Social
Science (Routledge, 2000), Making Sense of Social
Research (SAGE, 2003), Philosophical Foundations of
Social Research (SAGE, 2006), Teaching Quantitative Methods
(with Geoff Payne, SAGE, 2011) Objectivity and Subjectivity in
Social Research (with Gayle Letherby and John Scott, SAGE,
2012) and The SAGE Handbook of Innovations in Social
Research (with W Paul Voght, SAGE, 2014).
This book is a positive contribution towards mutual understanding
in the sometimes fractious debates about epistemology in social
research. The authors each bring to bear a depth of knowledge, and
engage in a novel ′trialogue′ around their perspectives. If you
want to get to grips with the issues in thinking about objectivity
and subjectivity, you couldn′t do better than to read this
book.
Rosalind Edwards
University of Southampton The editors provide solid and accessible
accounts of major debates today, their histories, and why they
matter. Best of all, after presenting the particular interests that
drew each into sociology in different eras, innovative discussions
at the end of each singly-authored chapter enable them respectfully
to interrogate each other′s interpretations of the issues. This
brilliant strategy will draw students into the debates in a most
engaging way.
Sandra Harding
University of California, Los Angeles This book is a positive
contribution towards mutual understanding in the sometimes
fractious debates about epistemology in social research. The
authors each bring to bear a depth of knowledge, and engage in a
novel ′trialogue′ around their perspectives. If you want to get to
grips with the issues in thinking about objectivity and
subjectivity, you couldn′t do better than to read this book.
Rosalind Edwards
University of Southampton
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