Locating and Extending Livelihoods Research

33 Pages Posted: 18 Jun 2008

Date Written: April 2008

Abstract

Much poverty and development research is not explicit about its methodology or philosophical foundations. Based on the extended case method of Burawoy and the epistemological standpoint of critical realism, this paper discusses a methodological approach for reflexive inductive livelihoods research that overcomes the unproductive social science dualism of positivism and social constructivism. The approach is linked to a conceptual framework and a menu of research methods that can be sequenced and iterated in light of research questions.

Keywords: livelihoods, methodology, ontology, epistemology, cross-disciplinary research, research methods, poverty

Suggested Citation

Prowse, Martin, Locating and Extending Livelihoods Research (April 2008). Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper No. 37, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1147573 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1147573

Martin Prowse (Contact Author)

University of Antwerp ( email )

Prinsstraat 13
Antwerp, 2000
Belgium

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