Researching Voluntary Action : Innovations and Challenges.

With case studies from around the world, this accessible book explores the methodological complexities of research into voluntary action, charitable behaviour and participation in voluntary organisations.

গ্রন্থ-পঞ্জীর বিবরন
প্রধান লেখক: Dean, Jon
অন্যান্য লেখক: Hogg, Eddy
বিন্যাস: Licensed eBooks
ভাষা:ইংরেজি
প্রকাশিত: Bristol : Policy Press, 2022.
মালা:Third Sector Research.
অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2bz2mvt
সূচিপত্রের সারণি:
  • Front Cover
  • Researching Voluntary Action: Innovations and Challenges
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • List of figures, tables and boxes
  • Notes on contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Series editor's foreword
  • 1 Introduction
  • Why is this book needed?
  • A note on terminology
  • Overview of the book
  • Conclusion
  • 2 (Un)suitable methods and reflexive considerations: an interview and focus group study of youth volunteering
  • Introduction
  • The research and I
  • Negotiating access and consent
  • Focus groups and interviews
  • Piloting participatory approaches
  • Focus group composition challenges and 'failed' interviews
  • The insider/outsider researcher
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 3 Interpretive ethnography: a UK charity shop case study
  • Introduction
  • The ethnographic case study
  • Access and location
  • Reflexivity and hidden stories
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 4 Collaborative philanthropy and doing practically relevant, critical research
  • Introduction
  • Doing practically relevant, critical research
  • Overcoming challenges of practically relevant, critical research
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 5 Peer research: co-producing research within the context of voluntary and community action
  • Introduction
  • A note on terminology
  • Researchers within the voluntary sector
  • Peer research: what is it and where does it 'sit'?
  • Core principles of peer research
  • Strengths of peer research
  • Challenges and limitations of the peer research approach
  • Future innovations in voluntary action peer research
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 6 Charity advertising: visual methods, images and elicitation
  • Introduction
  • Using visual methods
  • Exploring fundraising materials and the representation of homelessness
  • Beneficiaries' reflections on international aid appeals
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 7 Using archives and objects in voluntary action research
  • Introduction
  • Identification
  • Access
  • Format
  • Analysis and interpretation
  • Acknowledgements
  • Further reading
  • 8 Using Mass Observation as a source of qualitative secondary data for interdisciplinary longitudinal research on voluntary action
  • Introduction
  • What is Mass Observation writing?
  • Representativeness and the writers' panel
  • Composition of the panel
  • Current sampling tools
  • Context, sampling and the MOP
  • Analytical approaches to the Your Life Line directive
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Further reading
  • 9 Investigating meanings and messages on volunteering through television media
  • Introduction
  • Interpretive analysis of television portrayals of volunteering
  • Building a dataset
  • Data collection
  • Method of analysis
  • Step 1: Locate and document show and volunteer attributes
  • Step 2: Theoretical interpretation: capturing messages and meanings
  • Step 3: Ensuring credibility