ABSTRACT
Social justice studies may seem to require practical, concrete research with immediate applications. The study of social movements and collective actions, David Snow and Dana Moss tells a decidedly analytic story with practical implications for social justice activists. Social justice researchers who study processes and address empirical complexity can produce nuanced, persuasive reports. Qualitative researchers who explicitly direct their work toward social justice may find it useful to examine the significance of the material world, language, time, agency and constraint, as well as implicit meanings and tangible actions. Qualitative inquiry is part art, part science. Qualitative researchers have long demonstrated the power of stories. Coding is a way of getting to the fundamentals to work with the data and define what stories suggest. Storytelling and theorizing may seems to represent two distinct forms of qualitative inquiry that reside at opposite ends of a continuum, art and science.
