In this paper we make the case of using photographs as a source of data for interpretive research in the information systems field, especially for ethnographic accounts. We treat photographs as knowledge objects and examine the richness of content and context they offer. Based on experiences from anthropology and sociology, we contend that photographs should be used along with other sources of ...

This annotated bibliography focuses on the various approaches to studying narrative. It covers the approaches to narrative in an interdisciplinary manner, including the fields of psychology, sociology, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, organisation studies, and history. Narrative is an interpretive approach in the social sciences involving storytelling methodology. The story becomes an obj...

Standard sociological theories of ‘taste-as-refinement’, which view taste as a means to maintain social distance among different social classes, conflict with tastemaking practice in pluralistic societies where taste standards are no longer exclusively defined by a society’s elite strata. To better account for the heterogeneity of tastemaking in modern societies, this article suggests a framewo...

The article is devoted to the rethinking and rediscovery of “civilization” “civilizations” as a theoretical perspective in contemporary sociology. In broader historical context, trajectories interactions social sciences with civilizational concept are traced, within which self-determination sociology has taken place, well construction transformation its research programs. new development dimens...

This article explores the basis of a critical accounting project in Latin America and suggests critique inspired by decolonial to reinvigorate accounting. The paper draws on Santos’ (2009) sociology absences explore epistemic assumptions present interpretive studies focusing achieve these aims. analysis reveals that analyzed often mobilize Anglo-Euro-Centric logics limit ability think itself im...

This research has been done during two years and with studying and consistent referring to almost thirty villages of region called” Mukerian” located in south of west Azarbaijan Iran. Data’s of this research considering socio-cultural peculiarities of studied rural by using qualitative methods and grounded theory and applying techniques like; deep interviews, oral history and field participatio...

More than thirty years ago, in their best-selling Habits of the Heart, Robert Bellah and his colleagues coined phrase “Social Science as Public Philosophy” (SSPP). They proposed it an alternative to “professional sociology” they believed had become increasingly hegemonic; too many sociologists, contended, mistakenly embraced ideal social science modelled on natural sciences. Instead, championed...

This study determines political choices in the legislative general election Palembang by responding to realities that are not directly related religious issues and creation of voter polarization subjectivity. Political relations between religion other instruments considered something does show their identity. In this study, researcher used a qualitative method with phenomenological sociology ap...

This is a study of an action research project conducted in one the biggest university departments for sociology Central Eastern European capital during first half 2000s. The paper shows that researchers’ images society have strong impact on social scientific methodology, explanations and narratives. I offer example how realist approaches to science technology studies can be used field discuss b...