Cultural methodologies / edited by Jim McGuigan

Contributor(s):

McGuigan, Jim [ed.]

Publication details: London : Sage, 1997Edition: 1rst edDescription: vii, 215 pISBN:

080397485X

Summary: How do you “do” cultural studies? What methods are available? How is research helped and hindered? With newly commissioned essays from some leading figures in the field Cultural Methodologies illustrates the distinctiveness and coherence of cultural studies as a site of interaction between the humanities and the social sciences. Topics covered include the relationship between critical theory and cultural studies; the pragmatics of cultural research and education; ethical questions and research purposes; the role of feminism in cultural studies; the uses of autobiography; the analysis of city cultures; textual analysis and ethnographic procedures; constructions of identity in relation to 'race', sexuality and nationhood; the use of Qualitative and Quantitative data; and some of the main issues involved in generating research findings for a thesis or other publication. Cultural Methodologies will function as an invaluable resource for thinking through the problems of doing research specifically in cultural studies. Most importantly, the book is written for students either commencing upon or intending to do research in cultural studies. It stresses how necessary it is to consider and plan very carefully the rationales and principles in research while avoiding the straitjacket of “methodolatory”. Rich and assured, the book is both intellectually daring and practical in its orientation to research in cultural studies (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 00773	1	Available		1900056199

Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Jim McGuigan -- Part I. Methodologies: 1. Critical theory and cultural studies: the missed articulation / Douglas Kellner ; 2. Towards a pragmatics for cultural studies / Tony Bennett ; 3. Media, ethics, and morality / Nick Stevenson ; 4. Learning from experience : cultural studies and feminism / Ann Gray -- Part II. 5. Researches: Writing the self: the end of the scholarship girl / Carolyn Steedman ; 6. Relocating location : cultural geography, the specificity of place and the city habitus / Martyn Lee ; 7. Dancing : representation and difference / Helen Thomas ; 8. Irish cultural studies and the politics of Irish studies / Sabina Sharkey -- Part III. Reflections: 9. Thin descriptions: questions of method in cultural analysis / Graham Murdock ; 10. Working practices / Michael Green -- Index

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