Martyn Hammersley

Martyn Hammersley is Emeritus Professor of Educational and Social Research at The Open University, UK. He has carried out research in the sociology of education and the sociology of the media, but much of his work has been concerned with the methodological issues surrounding social enquiry. His books include (with Paul Atkinson) Ethnography: Principles in Practice (Fourth edition, Routledge 2019), The Politics of Social Research (Sage, 1995), Taking Sides in Social Research (Routledge, 2000), Media Bias in Reporting Social Research? (Routledge, 2006), Questioning Qualitative Inquiry (Sage, 2008), Methodology Who Needs It? (Sage, 2011), The Myth of Research-Based Policy and Practice (Sage 2013), The Radicalism of Ethnomethodology (Manchester University Press, 2018), The Concept of Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Troubling Sociological Concepts (Palgrave Macmillan 2020), and Methodological Concepts: A critical guide (Routledge 2023).
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