New materialist social inquiry: designs, methods and the research-assemblage
New materialist social inquiry: designs, methods and the research-assemblage
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DOI：
10.1080/13645579.2014.921458
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发表时间：
2015-07-04
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Alldred, Pam
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作者：
Fox, Nick J.;Alldred, Pam
本文讨论了新唯物主义社会探究中的研究设计和方法问题，这种方法作为现实主义或建构主义本体论的替代方法，正在社会科学界引起越来越多的兴趣。新唯物主义剥夺了人类能动性的特权，转而关注有生命和无生命的组合如何共同创造世界，这对社会探究方法论和方法具有根本性的影响。我们探索的关键是由研究者、数据、方法和背景组成的“研究组合”的唯物主义概念。我们首先利用这种理解来探索研究过程的微观政治，然后结合最近 30 项实证研究的回顾，建立唯物主义社会调查方法论和方法的框架。我们讨论采用唯物主义本体论的认识论后果。
This paper discusses issues of research design and methods in new materialist social inquiry, an approach that is attracting increasing interest across the social sciences as an alternative to either realist or constructionist ontologies. New materialism de-privileges human agency, focusing instead upon how assemblages of the animate and inanimate together produce the world, with fundamental implications for social inquiry methodology and methods. Key to our exploration is the materialist notion of a 'research-assemblage' comprising researcher, data, methods and contexts. We use this understanding first to explore the micropolitics of the research process, and then - along with a review of 30 recent empirical studies - to establish a framework for materialist social inquiry methodology and methods. We discuss the epistemological consequences of adopting a materialist ontology.