Social Research after the Cultural Turn

MATT COOK Senior Lecturer in History at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, specialising in the history of homosexuality in the British and urban context, and Co-Director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre ROSIE COX Senior Lecturer in Geography and Gender Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK GORDON LYNCH Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology at the University of Kent, UK LESLIE J. MORAN Professor in the School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London, UK YASMEEN NARAYAN Lecturer in Sociology and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK MIKE SAVAGE Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of York, UK LYNNE SEGAL Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK KAREN WELLS Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK

This collection explores the contested meanings and diverse practices of social research in the context of contemporary theoretical debates in cultural and social theory, addressing fundamental questions facing those working in the social and human sciences today.This collection explores the contested meanings and diverse practices of social research in the context of contemporary theoretical debates in cultural and social theory, addressing fundamental questions facing those working in the social and human sciences today.