Researching Social Problems

<p>This book covers a wide range of contemporary methods for researching social problems and connects these approaches to the broader substance and theories of social problems. Expository and discursive in approach chapters follow a uniform structure with each offering research examples and a broad description of the related method and its theoretical context together with a how-to guide for applying that method using substantive examples from the field of social problems. For every method explored there is a research example that fully reviews and illustrates the application of the particular method before giving a full assessment of the method’s strengths and weaknesses and latest developments. With chapters exploring survey interviews in-depth interviews narrative inquiry institutional ethnography participatory action research auto-ethnography Actor-Network Theory experimental research visual research methods and research ethics <i>Researching Social Problems</i> will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and politics working in the fields of research methods and social problems.</p>