You are here

Book > Academic Books > Public Relations
SAS2
Share

SAS2
A Guide to Collaborative Inquiry and Social Engagement

First Edition
June 2018 | 316 pages | SAGE India
Download flyer
SAS2: A Guide to Collaborative Inquiry and Social Engagement represents a groundbreaking international effort to support the creation and mobilization of practical, authentic knowledge for social change. The guiding principle behind SAS2 (Social Analysis Systems, www.sas2.net) is that group dialogue and social inquiry are crucial for local and global development. Social issues must be addressed socially and in a multistakeholder mode, not by private interests and experts alone, and the insights that emerge must be fully integrated into processes of knowledge production, planning, and decision-making.

Part 1 outlines the concepts and skillful means needed to support multistakeholder dialogue and engagement. It also provides detailed instructions on how to integrate and ground collaborative inquiry in the projects, plans, evaluations and activities of multiple stakeholders. Part 2 presents a selection of techniques for collaborative inquiry and examples of real-life applications in South Asia and Latin America. The examples focus on a range of issues including land tenure, local economic development, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and organizational development.

This book will be an invaluable resource for researchers, consultants, facilitators and activists working with people to solve problems and support inclusive inquiry and decision-making. It will also be useful to scholars and academics studying and teaching participatory action research in the social sciences.

Foreword

P V Satheesh
Introduction

 
 
I: SAS2 CONCEPTS AND PROCESS
Foundations and Skillful Means

 
Social Analysis and All-Purpose Techniques

 
Process Management

 
Guidelines for SAS2 Events and Process Design

 
Monitoring and Evaluation

 
SAS2 Facilitation and Active Listening

 
Writing Guidelines

 
 
II: SAS2 TECHNIQUES AND LEARNING
Workshop and Self-Study Guidelines

 
A R T (Action-Research-Training)

 
Order and Chaos :

 
Problem Tree

 
Force Field

 
Timeline

 
Gaps and Conflicts

 
Causal Dynamics

 
Validation

 
Stakeholder Identification

 
Social Analysis CLIP (Collaboration, Conflict, Legitimacy, Interests, Power)

 
Social Domain

 
VIP (Values, Interests and Positions)

 
Ideal Scenario

 
Option Domain

 
Competing Goals

 
Role Dynamics

 
Levels of Support

 
The Wheel

 
Conclusions and Acknowledgements

 

For instructors

Please contact your Academic Consultant to check inspection copy availability for your course.

Select a Purchasing Option

SAGE Research Methods Promotion

SAGE Research Methods is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. SAGE Research Methods links over 175,000 pages of SAGE’s renowned book, journal and reference content with truly advanced search and discovery tools. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. Since SAGE Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and more.

With SAGE Research Methods, researchers can explore their chosen method across the depth and breadth of content, expanding or refining their search as needed; read online, print, or email full-text content; utilize suggested related methods and links to related authors from SAGE Research Methods' robust library and unique features; and even share their own collections of content through Methods Lists. SAGE Research Methods contains content from over 720 books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks, the entire “Little Green Book,” and "Little Blue Book” series, two Major Works collating a selection of journal articles, and specially commissioned videos.

Find out more