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Metaphorical imagination : towards a methodology for implicit evidence /
This book tells the story of an intellectual journey with metaphor. It questions the basis of evidence in social research, especially the 21st century fallacies surrounding it. Metaphor itself serves as the story-teller here. As the book shows, social research evidence is hidden deep inside metaphor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book tells the story of an intellectual journey with metaphor. It questions the basis of evidence in social research, especially the 21st century fallacies surrounding it. Metaphor itself serves as the story-teller here. As the book shows, social research evidence is hidden deep inside metaphor, and is uncovered by the use of the social research method. Through research we make methodological compromises to ensure our intellectual survival. It also highlights that all truth-values are embodied, paradoxical, metaphorical, and postdisciplinary, and that ethically responsible research is poss. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 252 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781443855563 1443855561 |