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Researching Beneath the Surface: Psycho-Social Research Methods in Practice

Editor : Simon Clarke, Editor : Paul Hoggett

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Since the 1990s, partly due to the impact of feminism, the social sciences have begun to change. Traditional models of human rationality which opposed reason to passion are being challenged. The familiar split between 'individual' and 'society', psychology and sociology, is now recognized as unhelpful to the study of both. And as ways have been sought to overcome such splits psychoanalysis has increasingly appeared in the breach. Psycho-social studies is also informing the development of new methodologies in the social sciences including the use of free association and biographical interview methods, the application of infant observation methodologies to social observation, the development of psychoanalytic ethnography/fieldwork and attention to transference/countertransference dynamics in the research process.

Contents
-Ways of Knowing
-The Dynamics of the Research Encounter
-Methods of Inquiry and Analysis