Doing Research on Sensitive Topics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803988613)

This book is a comprehensive guide to the methodological, ethical and practical issues involved in undertaking research on sensitive topics. Raymond M Lee explores the reasons why social research may be politically or socially contentious: its relation to issues of social or political power; its capacity to encroach on people′s lives; and its potentially problematic nature for the researcher.

Issues examined include: the choice of methodologies for sensitive research; problems of estimating the size of hidden populations; questions of sampling, surveying and interviewing; and sensitivity in access and the handling of data. The book also discusses the political and ethical issues at stake in the relations between the researc

Author: Raymond Lee
ISBN-10: 0803988613
ISBN-13: 9780803988613
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Language: English
Published: 05/17/1993
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.59d