Acknowledgements
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Introduction: imaginative methodologies : challenging conventional conceptions of social science / Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Michael S. Drake, Kieran Keohane and Anders Petersen
Reading
Chicago vice and virtue : the poetic imagination meets the sociological imagination / Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Rasmus Antoft and Anja Jørgensen
Bacon, Kundera, Bauman / Keith Tester
José Saramago's sociology / Michael S. Drake
Writing
Reading and writing the experimental text / Norman K. Denzin
On writing : on writing sociology / Zygmunt Bauman
Alice in computerland / Laurel Richardson
Exploring
Getting in touch with the world : meaning and presence in social science / Svend Brinkmann
Theatricalised reality and novels of truth : respecting tradition and promoting imagination in social research / Arpad Szakolczai
Creative methods : oracles, poiesis and epiphanies as metaphors of theorizing / Kieran Keohane
Teaching
Creativity in the classroom : the poetics of pedagogy and therapeutic shock in teaching sociology / Anders Petersen, Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Rasmus Antoft
Inspiring : the methodological imagination : using art and literature in social science methods teaching / Julie Seymour
Imagining the outsiders : exploring literary representations of "the other" as pedagogic practice / Louise Sturgeon-Adams
The uses of literary and cinematic characters in teaching sociology / Lisbeth B. Knudsen
Index.
Imaginative methodologies in the social sciences : creativity, poetics and rhetoric in social research by Michael Hviid Jacobsen. ISBN 9781472409928. Published by Ashgate Pub. in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.