Critical issues in social research : power and prejudice / edited by Suzanne Hood, Berry Mayall, and Sandy Oliver.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hood, Suzanne, 1957-

Mayall, Berry.

Oliver, Sandy, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with social disabilities--Research.

People with social disabilities.

Action research.

Marginality, Social.

Research.

Physical Description:

ix, 177 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Buckingham, [U.K.] ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1999.

Contents:

1 Children and childhood / Berry Mayall 10

2 Children in the Majority World: is Outer Mongolia really so far away? / Helen Penn 25

3 Learning disabilities: the researcher's voyage to planet Earth / Christopher Goodey 40

4 Disturbed young people: research for what, research for whom? / Priscilla Alderson 54

5 'Unhistoric acts': women's private past / A. Susan Williams 68

6 Black people's health: ethnic status and research issues / Penelope Scott 80

7 Frail elderly people: difficult questions and awkward answers / Valerie Hey 94

8 Gay men: drowning (and swimming) by numbers / Chris Bonell 111

9 The 'targets' of health promotion / Greet Peersman 124

10 Users of health services: following their agenda / Sandy Oliver 139

11 People's ways of knowing: gender and methodology / Ann Oakley 154.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0335201415

0335201407

OCLC:

39202225