1st Edition
Habermas and Social Research Between Theory and Method
Edited By Mark Murphy
Copyright 2017
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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One of the greatest contributors to the field of Sociology, Jürgen Habermas has had a wide-ranging and significant impact on understandings of social change and social conflict. He has inspired researchers in a range of disciplines with his multidimensional social theory, however an overview of his theory in applied settings is long overdue. This collection brings together in one... Read more
Introduction: Putting Habermas to work in social research (Mark Murphy) Section 1: Research on Colonisation Chapter 2: Habermas in the context of social movements research: Colonisation as a living battle (Gemma Edwards) Chapter 3: Habermas’ critical theory as an alternative research paradigm: The case of Everglades environmental policy (Claire Connolly Knox) Chapter 4: Habermas and the self-regulation of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) (Peter Kennedy) Section 2: The politics of deliberation 1: Research on the public sphere Chapter 5: Working with and thinking against Habermas (Judith Bessant) Chapter 6: Digitizing Habermas: Digital public spheres & networked publics (Bjarki Valtysson) Section 3: The politics of deliberation 2: Research on inclusion Chapter 7: Parental involvement in school: Applying Habermas’ theoretical framework (Anne Dorthe Tveit) Chapter 8: Looking at participation through the lens of Habermas’ theory: opportunities to bridge the gap between lifeworld and system? (Susan Woelders & Tineke Abma) Section 4: Communicative (inter)actions 1: School and migration studies Chapter 9: Transnationalism as communicative action: Putting Habermas to work in migration studies (Thomas Lacroix) Chapter 10: Young children’s educational practice in preschool in relation to Habermas’ philosophical perspective (Anette Emilson) Section 5: Communicative (inter)actions 2: The planning process Chapter 11: Bridging the theory and method nexus in planning: The potential and limits of Habermas for urban planning scholarship (Crystal Legacy and Alan March) Chapter 12: Habermas and the role of linguistic interaction in environmental planning: An East European case study (Maie Kiisel)
Biography
Mark Murphy is Reader in Education & Public Policy at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has a long history of writing about, and working with, Habermas’ ideas, including co-editing Habermas, critical theory and education (with T. Fleming, Routledge, 2012).
