SAGE has been a major force shaping the field of qualitative methods: not just in its specialist methods journals like Qualitative Inquiry but in the ‘empirical’journals such as Social Studies of Science. Delving into SAGE's deep backlist of qualitative research methods journals, Paul Atkinson and Sara Delmont, editors of Qualitative Research, have selected over seventy articles to represent SAGE's distinctive contribution to Methods publishing in general and qualitative research in particular. This collection includes research from the past four decades and addresses key issues or controversies, such as explanations and defences of qualitative methods; ethics; research questions and foreshadowed problems; access; first days in the field; field roles and rapport; practicalities of data collection and recording; data analysis; writing and (re) presentation; the rise of auto-ethnography; life history, narrative and autobiography; CA and DA; and alternatives to the logocentric (such as visual methods).

Writing an Intellectual History of Scientific Development: The Use of Discovery Accounts

Writing an intellectual history of scientific development: The use of discovery accounts
Writing an Intellectual History of Scientific Development: The Use of Discovery AccountsS. W.Woolgar28 ppSAGE Publications, Inc.
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Woolgar, S.(1976)‘The use of discovery accounts’, Social Studies of Science9, 3, 303-27.

Recently I presented, with others, a general statement of the sequence of social and intellectual processes which characterize the emergence, growth and final decline of specific areas of scientific endeavour.1 A central concern of my own research has been to examine the extent to which scientific activity in one particular ...

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