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| List of Tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| Dedication and Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Theoretical parameters of the book | |
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| Theoretical consciousness | |
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| Key definitions used in the book | |
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| Outline of chapters | |
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| Social Values and Social Research: The Collective Good, Life and Liberty and Reason | |
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| Universal values: Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness | |
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| Social values | |
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| The strong society thesis | |
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| The strong individual thesis | |
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| The contents of the universal-moral social value system | |
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| Social Research and Professional Codes of Ethics | |
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| The complexity of research relationships | |
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| Researchers, research subjects and respondents | |
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| Relationships with other stakeholders | |
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| Professional codes of ethical practice: Nuremburg Code of 1947 and Declaration of Helsinki 1964/2008 | |
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| Professional codes: British Sociological Association Statement of Ethical Practice | |
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| Professional codes: A UK university's guidelines on good research practice | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Intellectual and Philosophical Underpinnings of Social Research | |
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| Intellectual knowledge: Rationalism versus empiricism | |
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| Positivism | |
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| Functionalism: Rationalist theory as knowledge | |
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| Interpretivism | |
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| Asking the right kind of questions and questions that are worth asking | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Values of the Researcher and Evaluation Research | |
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| A brief history of evaluation | |
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| Appraising evaluation | |
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| From evaluation to evaluation research | |
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| Epistemological and ethical challenges faced by evaluation researchers | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Critical Approaches in Social Research: Critical Realism and Value Standpoint Social Research | |
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| What does it mean to be 'critical'? | |
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| Advocacy, criticism and the research process | |
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| Ethical justification for adopting value standpoints in social research | |
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| Critical approaches in social research | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Making It Personal: Action Research, Practitioner Research and Self-Reflexive Practice | |
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| The procedures of action research | |
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| The role of the action researcher | |
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| The kinds of practical and intellectual outcomes produced | |
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| Criticisms of the action perspective | |
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| Social Research and Social Policy | |
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| Social welfare policy and the political context | |
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| The role of social researchers in the policy-making process | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Theoretical consciousness | |
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| Analytical criticism | |
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| Value neutrality | |
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| Relationships | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |