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This book offers an account of contemplative reflection in qualitative social research, focusing on the experiences of the researcher and the means by which the researcher's basic assumptions can be analysed and bracketed, so as to shed light on the role of subjectivity in the process by which knowledge is produced.
List of contents
1. Grounded Theory Methodology and Phenomenological Qualitative Research 2. Towards Contemplative Grounded Theory: Constructing Categories and the Minding of the Researcher 3. The Sociology of the Lifeworld versus the Deathworld: How Can One Protect the Lifeworld? 4. Mindful Sociology: A Contemplative Diary in Studying the Work of the Mind of a Sociologist in the Times of Coronavirus 5. Experiencing the Space: Visiting Cemeteries on All Saints' Day and an Ordinary Day
About the author
Krzysztof T. Konecki is Professor of Sociology and Chief of the Department of Sociology of Organization and Management at the University of ¿ód¿, Poland. He is also editor-in-chief of
Qualitative Sociology Review and President of the Polish Sociological Association. He has published extensively on qualitative methods and grounded theory methodology and is the author of
Advances in Contemplative Social Research.
Summary
This book offers an account of contemplative reflection in qualitative social research, focusing on the experiences of the researcher and the means by which the researcher’s basic assumptions can be analysed and bracketed, so as to shed light on the role of subjectivity in the process by which knowledge is produced.
