Michael Hviid Jacobsen - Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences

IMAGINATIVE METHODOLOGIES IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

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Creativity, Poetics and Rhetoric in Social Research

Edited by
Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Aalborg University, Denmark
Michael S. Drake
University of Hull, UK
Kieran Keohane
University College Cork, Ireland
Anders Petersen
Aalborg University, Denmark

First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Jacobsen, Michael Hviid, 1971
Imaginative methodologies in the social sciences: creativity, poetics and rhetoric in
social research / by Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Michael S. Drake, Kieran Keohane and
Anders Petersen.
pages cm. -- (Classical and contemporary social theory)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4724-0992-8 (hardback) 1. Social sciences--Research--Methodology. 2.
Social sciences--Study and teaching. I. Title.
H62.J2963 2014
300.72--dc23
2013033633

ISBN 9781472409928 (hbk)

This book is the outcome of the editors aspiration imaginatively to rethink and rearticulate the notion of methodology within the social sciences. Moreover, the book is a concrete materialization of a budding collaboration between the universities of Aalborg, Cork and Hull, which has gradually developed over the last few years. We wish to thank contributors for insightful and inspirational contributions. We also wish to thank Neil Jordan, Senior Commissioning Editor at Ashgate Publishing, for solid encouragement and professional guidance throughout the process of completing this book. With this book we hope to contribute to the ongoing and indeed valuable discussion about social science methodology and how this can be continuously developed, challenged and improved. It is indeed an impoverished soul that cannot appreciate the multiplicity of methodologies.

Aalborg, Cork and Hull, Spring 2014
Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Michael S. Drake
Kieran Keohane
Anders Petersen

Rasmus Antoft is Associate Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Aalborg University, Denmark. His main areas of research are: qualitative research methods, the sociology of professions, creative methods and the sociology of health and illness. He has co-edited Den poetiske fantasi (with Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Lisbeth B. Knudsen, 2010).

Zygmunt Bauman is a world-renowned and award-winning sociologist who for more than half a century has critically contributed to the development of sociology. his writings comprise more than 40 books and he is still publishing extensively. Some of his most important contributions to social theory are: Modernity and the Holocaust (1989), Intimations of Postmodernity (1990), Postmodern Ethics (1993), Liquid Modernity (2000), Society under Siege (2002) and more recently titles such as 44 Letters from a Liquid Modern World (2010) and Collateral Damage (2011). a recent interview book What Use Is Sociology? (with Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Keith Tester, 2013) summarizes Zygmunt Baumans vision of sociology.