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From Where I Stand I Can Almost See Society, or The Ups and Downs of Social Research
Author(s) -
Ward Jim
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1980.tb00693.x
Subject(s) - project commissioning , publishing , sociology , focus (optics) , public relations , media studies , social science , political science , law , physics , optics
In a hierarchically structured society such as ours, the problem of the place the student of society occupies vis‐à‐vis those he or she studies is of critical importance. Several social scientists have recently appealed to their colleagues to turn their focus away from those at the bottom of the structure and to spend more time studying those at the top. The present article discusses the pitfalls of exclusively ‘upward’ or ‘downward’ research.