Introduction
- Methodology and method
- Inquiry, research, and science
- Truth
- Fact
- Bias and objectivity
- Rigour
- Data and evidence
- Deduction, induction, and abduction
- Understanding and explanation
- Reflexivity
- Triangulation
- Theory
- Researcher integrity
References
Glossary of philosophical terms
Biography
Martyn Hammersley is Emeritus Professor of Educational and Social Research at The Open University, UK. His research interests include the sociology of education, the sociology of the media, ethnography, and social research methodology. He is the author of numerous books, including The Politics of Social Research (1995), Reading Ethnographic Research (Second edition, 1997), Educational Research, Policymaking and Practice (2002), Questioning Qualitative Inquiry (2008), The Myth of Research-Based Policy and Practice (2013), The Limits of Social Science (2014), The Radicalism of Ethnomethodology (2018), Ethnography: Principles in Practice (Fourth edition, Routledge, 2019), The Concept of Culture (2019), and Troubling Sociological Concepts (2020).
