Advancing Scientific Knowledge Through Participatory Action Research

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Title

Advancing Scientific Knowledge Through Participatory Action Research

Abstract/Description

This paper aims to demonstrate the value of participatory action research (PAR) for advancing scientific knowledge as well as for solving practical problems. The article supports the argument through brief summaries of three PAR cases in industry: Norwegian shipping, Xerox Corporation, and the FAGOR group of the Mondragón cooperatives. While noting the practical gains achieved through PAR, the author concentrates particularly on the advances in substantive knowledge and theory that would have been unlikely to emerge out of more orthodox sociological research. The author suggests finally that wider use of participatory action research can have a stimulating effect upon the future development of sociology.

Author/creator

Whyte, William Foote

Date

9/1/1989

In publication

Sociological Forum

Volume

4

Issue

3

Pages

367-385

Resource type

en Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

en Published Text

Scholarship genre

en Theoretical

en Methodological

en Empirical

Keywords

participatory action research

advancing science

creative surprises

standard research methodologies

IRE Approach/Concept

Participatory Action Research (PAR)

Language

en

Open access/full-text available

en No

Peer reviewed

en Yes

ISSN

1573-7861

DOI

10.1007/BF01115015

URL

Official Publisher's Webpage (Springer Link)

Citation

Whyte, W. F. (1989). Advancing Scientific Knowledge Through Participatory Action Research. Sociological Forum, 4(3), 367–385. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01115015

Cited in

Introducing Improvement Research in Education

Abbreviation

Sociol Forum

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