Books by Martyn Hammersley

These conceptions of culture are interrogated, and a reformulation of the concept is sketched.This book will be of interest to students and scholars across a variety of fields, including anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and education.

This book offers a well-informed and timely appraisal of the rationale for ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. It examines some of the influences that have shaped work of this kind, and its relationship to mainstream social science. -- .

This book engages with key intellectual challenges facing social science today, at a time when it is under considerable pressure to demonstrate its value. It addresses questions that carry implications for research practice, quantitative or qualitative, by making use of contemporary examples, such as the London riots.

Structured as a series of probing questions, and covering a range of methods, this book reflects on the challenge posed by the idea that social research should serve evidence-based practice.

Explores the field of research ethics and presents a distinctive perspective; one that is at odds with the assumptions underpinning ethical regulation, but also with the views of many qualitative researchers today.

In this confrontational text Martyn Hammersley looks at the key issues in current social research methodology, it is a must-read for those interested in the state of this field.

This book brings together material from wide range of studies, mainly qualitative in character, concerned with exploring what actually goes on in learning situations and explores the perspectives of teachers, and students.

It is often argued that all research is inevitably political in its assumptions and effect. Hammersley assesses all the arguments from the classic contributions to the debate - C. Wright Mills, Becker and Goulder - to the present.

Provocative essays on current developments and debates that are essential reading for anyone interested in the future of qualitative research.

A fresh look at the rationale for, and distinctiveness of, ethnographic research. The policy and political implications of ethnography are a particular focus of attention.

Educational Research maps the demands now being made on educational research against the background complexities of the relationship between research and practice.

Recent years have seen a growing range of challenges to the idea that research should be governed by the principle of value neutrality. In this stimulating and often controversial book, Martyn Hammersley weighs the arguments offered in support of these positions.