TY - BOOK TI - Imaginative methodologies in the social sciences: creativity, poetics and rhetoric in social research T2 - Classical and contemporary social theory SN - 978-1-4724-0992-8 U1 - 300.72 23E PY - 2014/// CY - Farnham, Burlington PB - Ashgate KW - Social sciences--Research--Methodology KW - Social sciences--Study and teaching N1 - Notes bibliogr; 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 ER -