MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS
Arts Graduate Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
ASM4300
Alternatives to straight research
Proposed to be offered next in 1997
Chris Atmore
12 points + 2 hours per week + Clayton
Synopsis This subject explores some critical issues in doing social
research which tend to be marginalised or ignored in methodological cookbooks.
Themes covered include ethical controversies, relations of power in the
research process, and the construction of research accounts. There is a
particular emphasis on feminist social research and its engagement with
postmodernist critiques.
Assessment Seminar paper (3000 words): 40% + Essay (6000 words): 60%
Recommended texts
- Bowles G and Klein R Theories of women's studies 1983
- Harding S The science question in feminism 1986
- Lather P Getting smart: Feminist research and pedagogy within the
postmodern 1991
- Roberts H Doing feminist research 1990
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