| Description |
1 online resource (289 pages) |
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Cover; Making Progress in Housing: A framework for collaborative research; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Part I Context; 1 Problems, questions and issues; Social housing: an overview; Housing research and making progress in housing; 2 Functional Collaboration: background; Bernard Lonergan and the remote origins of Functional Collaboration; Searchings for Functional Collaboration; 3 Towards a scientific approach to research; A current standard model of housing research: external and internal processes |
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Research as asking and answering questionsA proposal for a scientific approach to housing research; Part II The functional specialties; 4 Research and the empirical question; Research: an initial view; Primary housing research; What are these primary researchers doing?; Towards a more precise understanding of Research; Implications for housing research; 5 Interpretation and the theoretical question; Interpretation: an initial view; Defining what is being researched; What are these researchers doing?; Towards a more precise understanding of Interpretation |
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Illustration: Towards an indicative theory of social housing rentImplications for housing research; 6 History and the historical question; The vector of change: an initial view of History; History within housing research; What are these historians doing?; Towards a more precise understanding of History; Two indicative illustrations of History; Implications for housing research; 7 Dialectic and the evaluative/critical question; Retracing our steps: an initial view of Dialectic; Retracing steps in housing research; What are these authors doing?; Towards a more precise understanding of Dialectic |
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Some illustrations of DialecticImplications for housing research; 8 Implementation and the future questions; An initial view of implementation; Implementation in housing research; The implementation functional specialties in research-policy linkages; Foundations and the transformative/visionary question; Policies and the policy question; Systematics and the strategic question; Communications and the practical question; Implications for housing research; Part III Function Collaboration: a unifying framework; 9 Functional Collaboration, science and progress |
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Functional Collaboration: the inter-relationship and unity of the functional specialtiesFunctional Collaboration as a scientific approach; Functional Collaboration as a framework for collaborative creativity; Making progress in housing; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book presents a new approach to housing research, one that is relevant to all the social sciences. Housing research is diverse and operates across many disciplines, approaches and methods making collaboration difficult. This book outlines a methodological framework that enables researchers from many different fields to collaborate in solving complex and seemingly intractable housing problems. It shows how we can make progress in housing research and deliver better housing outcomes through an integrated approach. Drawing on the work of renowned Canadian methodologist, philosopher, theologia |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Housing -- Research.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Housing -- Research
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315832609 |
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1315832607 |
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9781317859376 |
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1317859375 |
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9781317859369 |
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1317859367 |
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