Imaginative methodologies in the social sciences : creativity, poetics and rhetoric in social research / edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen...[et al ]. - Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing, c2014. - xi, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Classical and contemporary social theory .



Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: imaginative methodologies : challenging conventional conceptions of social science / Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Michael S. Drake, Kieran Keohane and Anders Petersen -- Reading -- Chicago vice and virtue : the poetic imagination meets the sociological imagination / Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Rasmus Antoft and Anja Jørgensen -- Bacon, Kundera, Bauman / Keith Tester -- José Saramago's sociology / Michael S. Drake -- Writing -- Reading and writing the experimental text / Norman K. Denzin -- On writing : on writing sociology / Zygmunt Bauman -- Alice in computerland / Laurel Richardson -- Exploring -- Getting in touch with the world : meaning and presence in social science / Svend Brinkmann -- Theatricalised reality and novels of truth : respecting tradition and promoting imagination in social research / Arpad Szakolczai -- Creative methods : oracles, poiesis and epiphanies as metaphors of theorizing / Kieran Keohane -- Teaching -- Creativity in the classroom : the poetics of pedagogy and therapeutic shock in teaching sociology / Anders Petersen, Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Rasmus Antoft -- Inspiring : the methodological imagination : using art and literature in social science methods teaching / Julie Seymour -- Imagining the outsiders : exploring literary representations of "the other" as pedagogic practice / Louise Sturgeon-Adams -- The uses of literary and cinematic characters in teaching sociology / Lisbeth B. Knudsen -- Index.

Challenging the mainstream orthodoxy of social scientific methodology, which closely guards the boundaries between the social sciences and the arts and humanities, this volume reveals that authors and artists are often engaged in projects parallel to those of the social sciences and vice versa, thus demonstrating that artistic and cultural production does not necessarily constitute a specialist field, but is in fact integral to social reality.

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Social sciences--Research--Methodology.
Social sciences--Study and teaching.

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