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Socio-Cultural Risk? Reporting on a Qualitative Study with Female Street-Based Sex Workers
Leaker, Mary; Dunk-West, Priscilla - In: Sociological Research Online 16 (2011) 4, pp. 9-9
Risk narratives are of increasing importance in contemporary social life in that they help in understanding and anticipating the shifts that characterise our late modern landscape. Our qualitative research explores risk as it relates to violence toward street-based sex workers in a suburban...
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The Geographical Mobility, Preferences and Pleasures of Prolific Punters: a Demonstration Study of the Activities of Prostitutes' Clients
Soothill, Keith; Sanders, Teela - In: Sociological Research Online 10 (2005) 1
Clients of prostitutes have been traditionally neglected in the study of prostitution. This demonstration study … contributes additional knowledge about prostitution at several levels: first, a microanalysis of a small sample of clients … onto the hidden world of prostitution in late modernity which in turn reveals some organisational features of prostitution …
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A Methodological Intervention in Cosmopolitanism Research: Cosmopolitan Dispositions Amongst Digital Natives
Lindell, Johan; Lin, Yu-Wei - In: Sociological Research Online 19 (2014) 3, pp. 19-19
The concept cosmopolitanism has the potential of becoming one of the most interesting social scientific tools for understanding contemporary social life. Operationalising it however, has proved a difficult task. Here, researchers utilise different single indicators while making claims towards...
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Shared Ownership and Mutual Imaginaries: Researching Research in Mass Observation
Pollen, Annebella - In: Sociological Research Online 19 (2014) 3, pp. 9-9
groups’ discussion of methodology, this paper highlights the often unarticulated but ultimately interdependent relationship …
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Synthetic Sociology and the ‘long Workshop’: How Mass Observation Ruined Meta-Methodology
Hurdley, Rachel - In: Sociological Research Online 19 (2014) 3, pp. 6-6
of sociological methodology. By addressing Mass Observation’s inconvenient materiality, its peculiar temporality and …
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The Reframing of Methodology: Revisiting a PhD Study
Dubberley, Sarah - In: Sociological Research Online 19 (2014) 4, pp. 5-5
study, informed by interpretivist methodology and associated epistemology, the wider funded study was informed by positivist …
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Reading Foucault: Genealogy and Social Science Research Methodology and Ethics
Bastalich, Wendy - In: Sociological Research Online 14 (2009) 2, pp. 3-3
its reproduction. In an effort to re-imagine interview methodology, scholars have read Foucault to suggest the need for …
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Constructing Meaningful Lives: Biographical Methods in Research on Migrant Women
Erel, Umut - In: Sociological Research Online 12 (2007) 4, pp. 5-5
The article argues that biographical methods are particularly suited to shift the methodological and theoretical premises of migration research to foreground the agency and subjectivity of migrant women. It is argued that structural and cultural readings can usefully be applied to the...
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Theory Building in Qualitative Research and Computer Programs for the Management of Textual Data
Kelle - In: Sociological Research Online 2 (1997) 2, pp. 1-1
This article refers to recent debates about the potential methodological costs and benefits of computer use in qualitative research and about the relationship between methodological approaches (eg. 'Grounded Theory') on the one hand and computer-aided methods of qualitative research on the...
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Gender Differences at Work: International Variations in Occupational Segregation
Jarman, Jennifer; Blackburn, Robert M; Brooks, Bradley; … - In: Sociological Research Online 4 (1999) 1
Despite the prominence of discussions of gender segregation in explanations of labour market inequalities, there have been relatively few cross-national studies due to a lack of suitably detailed data. A recent ILO initiative obtained suitable data for cross-national analysis of 38 countries,...
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