Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Part 1: Knowledge, Power, And Social Research
• Part 1A: Rediscovering the Critical Edge in Social Analysis
• Chapter 1 Theses on Feuerbach, Karl Marx
• Chapter 2 Whose Side Are We On?, Howard S. Becker
• Chapter 3 Social Justice and Sociology: Agendas for the Twenty-First Century, Joe R. Feagin
• Part 1B: Steps toward Critical Inquiry
• Chapter 4 On Intellectual Craftsmanship, C. Wright Mills
• Chapter 5 Methods from the Margins, Sandra Kirby and Kate McKenna
• Chapter 6 Twenty-Five Indigenous Projects, Linda Tuhiwai Smith
• Chapter 7 Toward an Emancipatory Methodology for Peace Research, Abigail Fuller
• Part 2: Five Critical Research Strategies
• Part 2A: Making Connections, Unmasking Relations: Dialectical Social Analysis
• Chapter 8 Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada, Jamie Swift, Jacqueline M. Davies, Robert G. Clarke, and Michael S.J. Czerny
• Chapter 9 The Principles of Dialectics, David Harvey
• Chapter 10 Why Dialectics? Why Now? Or, How to Study the Communist Future inside the Capitalist Present, Bertell Ollman
• Chapter 11 Explaining Global Poverty: A Realist Critique of the Orthodox Approach, Branwen Gruffydd Jones
• Part 2B: Problematizing the Everyday World: Institutional Ethnography
• Chapter 12 Theory ""in"" Everyday Life, Marie Campbell and Frances Gregor
• Chapter 13 Ethnography, Institutions, and the Problematic of the Everyday World, Peter R. Grahame
• Chapter 14 Institutional Ethnography: Using Interviews to Investigate Ruling Relations, Marjorie L. DeVault and Liza McCoy
• Chapter 15 Institutional Ethnography and Experience as Data, Marie L. Campbell
• Part 2C: Subverting Dominant Discourses: Critical Discourse Analysis
• Chapter 16 Postmodernism and Deconstructionism, Norman K. Denzin
• Chapter 17 Two Lectures: Lecture One: January 7, 1976, Michel Foucault
• Chapter 18 Discovering Discourses, Tackling Texts, Ian Parker
• Chapter 19 The Critical Analysis of Discourse, Lilie Chouliaraki and Norman Fairclough
• Part 2D: Inquiry as Empowerment: Participatory Action Research
• Chapter 20 Local Knowledge, Cogenerative Research, and Narrativity, Davydd J. Greenwood and Morten Levin
• Chapter 21 Community-Based Participatory Research: Aspects of the Concept Relevant for Practice, Verna St. Denis
• Chapter 22 Community Action Research, Marge Reitsma-Street and Leslie Brown
• Chapter 23 Power and Knowledge, John Gaventa and Andrea Cornwall
• Part 2E: Social Inquiry as Communicative Reason: Toward a Public Sociology
• Chapter 24 The Promise, C. Wright Mills
• Chapter 25 Exploring the Relevance of Critical Theory for Action Research: Emancipatory Action Research in the Footsteps of Jürgen Habermas, Stephen Kemmis
• Chapter 26 The ""Project of Modernity"" and the Parameters for a Critical Sociology: An Argument with Illustrations from Medical Sociology, Graham Scambler
• Chapter 27 Emancipatory Politics, Critical Evaluation, and Government Policy, Madine VanderPlaat
• Conclusion
• Appendix: Workshops to Illustrate Critical Research Strategies in Practice

About the Author

Dr William K Carroll is one of Canada's top sociologists. He is a professor of sociology at the University of Victoria. Dr Carroll's name is synonymous with the highest academic standards and intellectual rigour, both nationally and internationally. Dr Carroll's main areas of interest are political economy, corporate power structures, social movements, theory and ideology, and Canadian society.

Reviews

I most like the way this book organizes the field of critical research by presenting five strategies. This framework sets up useful opportunities for comparison of research perspectives. There certainly is a need for a critical reader on research strategies."" - Mary-Beth Raddon, Brock University