This book is an examination of the methods used by social researchers to produce knowledge. Focussing chiefly on research into sexuality and madness, it assesses survey methods and opens up broader philiosophical debates on the nature of knowledge.
This book provides a challenge to the recent post-positivist orthodoxy in social analysis, outlining a theory of social domains which re-establishes the importance of the wider settings and contexts of society.
This book provides a challenge to the recent post-positivist orthodoxy in social analysis, outlining a theory of social domains which re-establishes the importance of the wider settings and contexts of society.
Analyses where a person's views, attitudes, values come from and why they change?