Locating and extending livelihoods research

TY - UNPB

T1 - Locating and extending livelihoods research

AU - Prowse, Martin

PY - 2008/8

Y1 - 2008/8

N2 - Much poverty and development research is not explicit about its methodology or philosophical foundations. Based on the extended case method of Burawoy and the epistemological standpoint of critical realism, this paper discusses a methodological approach for reflexive inductive livelihoods research that overcomes the unproductive social science dualism of positivism and social constructivism. The approach is linked to a conceptual framework and a menu of research methods that can be sequenced and iterated in light of research questions.

AB - Much poverty and development research is not explicit about its methodology or philosophical foundations. Based on the extended case method of Burawoy and the epistemological standpoint of critical realism, this paper discusses a methodological approach for reflexive inductive livelihoods research that overcomes the unproductive social science dualism of positivism and social constructivism. The approach is linked to a conceptual framework and a menu of research methods that can be sequenced and iterated in light of research questions.

M3 - Working paper

SN - 978-1-906518-36-3

BT - Locating and extending livelihoods research

CY - Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper 37, University of Manchester

ER -