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.
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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 语言: | 英语 |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2022.
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| 丛编: | Third Sector Research.
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| 在线阅读: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2bz2mvt |
书本目录:
- 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