Managing Fragmentation by Adrian Barton

Author:Adrian Barton [Barton, Adrian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9781351743020
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

6 An introduction to the research setting, participating agencies and key factors

Introduction

This chapter starts the process of delivering the fruits of the research. It begins by introducing the participating agencies and the dramatis personae which comprised the ACPC. Each section is prefaced with the official roles and functions of each agency, with this information being taken from the ACPCs’ joint training manual, or as it was referred to throughout the research by the respondents, ‘the green book’.

A condition of research access was anonymity of response. Social science has traditionally turned to the use of a pseudonym to mask identities. Most pseudonyms exhibit little originality and have a tendency to be bland (for example, Whyte’s ‘Comerville’ is hardly inspirational). Faced with the prospect of re-naming an existing location it has become apparent why blandness rules: creating the name of a ‘new’ town is intrinsically difficult (hence Milton Keynes?). Therefore, continuing the trend of lack of originality in social science literature, it has been decided to re-christen the location of the study ‘Greentown’.

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