1st Edition

Researching Beneath the Surface Psycho-Social Research Methods in Practice

Edited By Simon Clarke, Paul Hoggett Copyright 2009
    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book offers an overview of the rapidly expanding field of Psycho-Social research. Drawing on aspects of discourse psychology, continental philosophy and anthropological and neuro-scientific understandings of the emotions, psycho-social studies has emerged as an embryonic new paradigm in the human sciences. Psycho-social studies uses psychoanalytic concepts and principles to illuminate core issues within the social sciences. The present volume contributes to the development of the new research methodologies in a number of ways. It is written largely from the point of view of practitioners who are also researchers. Although contributors draw largely upon object-relations traditions in psychoanalysis, other influences are also present, particularly from continental philosophy and the sociology of the emotions. It develops an approach to epistemology - how we know what we know, which is strongly informed by a living approach to psychoanalysis, not just as a theory but as a way of being in the world - that is as a stance.

    Researching beneath the surface: a psycho-social approach to research practice and method -- Ways of Knowing -- Experiencing knowledge: the vicissitudes of a research journey -- How to live and learn: learning, duration, and the virtual -- When words are not enough -- The Dynamics of the Research Encounter -- Charting the clear waters and the murky depths -- Fear—and psycho-social interviewing -- The use of self as a research tool -- Methods of Inquiry and Analysis -- Seeing ↔ believing, dreaming ↔ thinking: some methodological mapping of view points -- Autobiography as a psycho-social research method -- Managing self in role: using multiple methodologies to explore self construction and self governance -- Analysing discourse psycho-socially

    Biography

    Clarke, Simon