Conducting Contextual Research

How to Find Out About Yourself and Other People
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-60825-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Reihe: Exploring the Environmental and Social Foundations of Human Behaviour

This innovative book proposes an entirely new approach to social research, presenting practical ways to discover people’s life contexts in order to understand why they do what they do, which is essential for any forms of research that need to understand people.

 

Taking a novel approach that goes beyond traditional categorisations of qualitative and quantitative research, the book starts by discussing the real basis of all research methods in social relationships, before detailing the methods for finding out about a person’s life contexts in very practical terms, accompanied by suggested questions, advice, and research tricks to help you progress.  The various life contexts are then worked through chapter by chapter. Drawing on the rich and varied research experiences of all the authors, examples are given throughout, with later chapters focusing on specific research areas.

 

Conducting Contextual Research is essential reading for postgraduate students and professionals in the fields of counselling, psychology and social work, and will be useful to anyone conducting research or inquiries to understand human behaviour, including academic researchers, detectives, intelligence operators, social workers, government service researchers, social policy analysts, and biographers.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guerin, Bernard

Thain, Eden

Stevens, Kristen

Richards, Adan C.

Leugi, Guilherme Bergo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Forschungsmethoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Researching and research practices in context  1. What is research and what is context?  2. The basics of contextual analyses and their advantages  3. Best practices and methods for gathering contextual material  4. What do we do with our contextual data? Analysis, answers, and actions  5. Putting current research methodologies into context  Part 2: Researching context in practice  6. Some general questions to understand someone’s contexts: Resource-Social Relationship Exchanges  7. Finding out about the contexts for secrecy and monitoring  8. Finding out about societal contexts which shape behaviour, talk and experience  9. Finding out about group and cultural practices  10. Finding out about social relationships  11. Finding out about language histories and communities  12. Finding out about the contexts for thinking  13. Finding out about the contexts for emotion  Part 3: Examples of researching contexts  14. Exploring the outcomes of bad life contexts  15. Analysing ‘strange’ or ‘odd-looking’ behaviours  16. Researching biographies and autobiographies: What do you need to know about your own context?  17. Social policy and context  18. Contextual research for detective and intelligence operations  19. Contextual research in sensitive and difficult situations

Über Autor(innen)

Bernard Guerin is Professor of psychology at the University of South Australia. His research and writing try to integrate what we know from the social sciences to provide a contextual view of all human behaviour, talking and thinking.



Eden Thain is a research fellow at the Australian Centre for Child Protection, University of South Australia, and a member of the Social Contextual Analysis of Human Behaviour Research Group.



Kristen Stevens is a social contextual researcher and has a PhD in social policy and human behaviour from the University of South Australia.

Adan C. Richards is a PhD candidate conducting contextual research with people labelled as "psychosis", at the University of South Australia.



Guilherme Bergo Leugi is Professor of psychology at the Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro, Brazil. His research investigates mental health, public policies, and contemporary challenges in clinical practice in themes mainly related to diversity, inclusion, marginalisation, and social justice.