Social Research

Introduction/PART ONE: PHILOSOPHY/An Overall View of Positivism/Two Traditions/Qualitative Research and Psychological Theorizing/The Elements of Critical Social Science/Traditions in Documentary Analysis/PART TWO: POLITICS/Decolonializing Applied Social Sciences/Towards a Methodology for Feminist Research/Intervention in New Social Movements/A Political Classification of Evaluation Studies in Education/The Value of Quantitative Methodology for Feminist Research/`Race' and Statistics/PART THREE: PRACTICE/Research Analysis of Administrative Records/How Official Statistics are Produced/Views from the Inside/`It's Great to Have Someone to Talk to'/Ethics and Politics of Interviewing Women/Observation and the Police/The Research Experience/Increasing the Generalizability of Qualitative Research/The Obviousness of Social and Educational Research Results