| Doing Discourse Research: An Introduction for Social Scientists Contributor(s): Keller, Reiner (Author) |
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ISBN: 1446249719 ISBN-13: 9781446249710 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $58.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Research - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 306.42 |
| LCCN: 2012939245 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.6" W x 9.4" (0.65 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book provides an introduction to the basic principles of discourse research and provides practical research strategies for doing discourse analyses in the social sciences. The book includes guidance on developing a research question, selecting data and analyzing it, and presenting your results. The author has extensive practical experience in the field of discourse research and shows throughout how the methods suggested are compatible with numerous research questions and problems in sociology, cultural, political and social studies and related disciplines. |
Contributor Bio(s): Keller, Reiner: - Reiner Keller (Dr. Phil) is Professor of Sociology at Augsburg University (Germany) since 2011. He was a member of the executive board of the German sociological association from 2015 to 2019 and chaired its sociology of knowledge section from 2011 to 2016. Currently, he is a codirector of the Jakob Fugger Center for Transnational Studies at Augsburg university and coeditor of the Journal for Discourse Research. His research centres on sociology of knowledge and culture, discourse studies, sociological theory, qualitative methods, risk and environment, and French sociology. He has published extensively in these areas. Keller received the German sociological association's best textbook in sociology award in 2013-2014 for "The Interpretive Paradigm." Further books include monographies on waste policy discourses in France and Germany, the sociology of knowledge approach to discourse, Michel Foucault. See http: //www.uni-augsburg.de/keller and http: //kellersskad.blogspot.de |