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This book is a clear, comprehensive guide to the methodological, ethical and practical issues involved in undertaking research on sensitive topics. The author explores the reasons why social research may be politically and socially contentious: its relation to issues of social power, its capacity to encroach on people's lives, and its potentially problematic nature for the researcher. He assesses the key questions in how to undertake sensitive research: the choice of methodologies for sensitive research; problems of estimating the size of hidden populations; questions of sampling, surveying and interviewing; sensitivity in access and in the handling of data. The book also discusses the political and ethical issues implicit in the relations between the researcher and the researched and in the disclosure, dissemination and publication of research.Product Identifiers
PublisherSAGE Publications LTD
ISBN-139780803988613
eBay Product ID (ePID)89145507
Product Key Features
Number of Pages240 Pages
Publication NameDoing Research on Sensitive Topics
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1993
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Research
AuthorRaymond Lee
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height216 mm
Item Weight280 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorRaymond Lee