PART ONE: PHILOSOPHICAL CHANGES
Modernity to Modernism
Postmodernity and Postmodernism
Structuralism and Poststructuralism
PART TWO: THE IMPACT OF POSTMODERNISM, POSTSTRUCTURALISM, COMPLEXITY AND CHAOS ON SOCIAL AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Research Design
The Position of the Researcher
The Researcher, the Research Participants and the Reader
Data Presentation and Re-presentation
A Postmodern Piece of Research
Continuums and Continuities

Carol Grbich is in the Faculty of Health Sciences, The Flinders University of South Australia.

This groundbreaking book explores the implications of postmodernist ideas within the research context. The text relates debates in postmodernism directly to current thinking and practice in both qualitative and quantitative research.