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Researching the Vulnerable

A Guide to Sensitive Research Methods

ISBN-13: 9781412912549
Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS
Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS
By Pranee Liamputtong
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Local release date: 18/03/2013
Format: Paperback (242.00mm X 170.00mm) 256 pages Weight: 450g
Categories: Social research & statistics [JHBC]

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Google Preview: Researching Vunerable People takes as its starting point the particular considerations and sensitivities of being a researcher faced with a subject group at the margins of society, and explores the ethical, practical and methodological implications of working with such groups. Pranee Liamputtong is an experienced textbook author, and in this book she attempts to explore qualitative methods using examples, drawn from around the world, from the wide variety of contexts that might count as 'researching the vulnerable'. Numerous salient points for the conduct of research within vulnerable groups of people, including ethical and moral issues, are considered, and discussed in the context of sensitive and innovative research methods.; The Sensitive Researcher Introduction to Researching Vulnerable People Moral and Ethical Issues In Researching Vulnerable People The Vulnerable Research Participants Procedural Sensibilities The Sensitive and Vulnerable Researcher Traditional Interviewing Research Methods Appropriate for Researching Vulnerable People Flexible and Collaborative Investigative Methods Innovative and Alternative Research Methods in Consideration (Re)Presentation of Vulnerable Voices Writing Research Findings A Closing Word...For Now; 'This book is refreshing, both as an addition to the general literature and as a text that considers cultural and social issues in studies relating to improving the situation of vulnerable people.... [T]his book will be a helpful, accessible and interesting resource for novice and experienced researchers alike in a number of fields' - Nurse Researcher 'Pranee Liamputtong has offered a well organized, clear and accessible work in Researching the Vulnerable...this book can offer very good guidance to the postgraduate student who is willing to focus in qualitative research methods, but also to an experienced researcher who may consider testing out its procedures or eventually is attempting to put into practice innovative qualitative research procedures' - Sociological Research Online; Google Preview content

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