Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Methodology)

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Studies in Law, Politics, and Society

ISSN: 1059-4337
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Title:	Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Methodology)
Author(s):	Michael McCann
Volume:	41 Editor(s): Austin Sarat ISBN: 978-0-7623-1460-7 eISBN: 978-1-84950-511-6
Citation:	Michael McCann (2007), Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Methodology), in Austin Sarat (ed.) Special Issue Law and Society Reconsidered (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Volume 41), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.19-59
DOI:	10.1016/S1059-4337(07)00002-6 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Abstract:	This chapter derives from the movieDr. Strangelovecues for exploring questions about the quest for methodological insularity and purity in socio-legal research. Steven Lukes’ classic three-dimensional model of power provides an intellectual focus for the core exploration of relations between epistemology and data generation, the two key elements that we usually identify with methodology. The discussion culminates in an affirmative argument for the value of approaching methodology as jazz, the creative popular music that grounds reliable, humane sense in Kubrick's movie and provides an apt analogy for much of the leading scholarship in the LSA tradition.