A map is only as good as the cartographer; likewise, the utility it offers to those who desire its guidance. This statement encapsulates Approaches to Social Research: The Case of Deaf Studies, Alys Young and Bogusia Temple Young’s timely, perhaps obligatory, addition to the methodological literature on deaf research. When I read this book, I envisioned a primeval landscape evolving with the pressures of geology, time, and human influence into an increasingly recognizable vista. In their slim but impactful volume, Young and Temple take pains to describe deaf social research as motile and, at times, frustratingly elusive. The authors use adjectives like fluid, influx, hybrid, and contested to describe the field’s advance from its inception to the present. In this way, Young and Temple work like cartographers to capture newly fractured terrains, wellworn pathways, and domains ripe for future upheaval. They craft sensitive arguments, pose incisive questions, and synthesize decades of research in a way that will be found useful by seasoned and novice researchers alike. Indeed, one of the authors’ most miraculous feats of mapmaking is their treatment of the book’s subject for two divergent audiences: those with and those without familiarity with deaf research’s amorphous landscape. Colocating social research and deaf studies provides what is perhaps the book’s most intriguing argument: its overt stance on the potential benefits of crosspollinating them. In so doing, the text provides a useful compass with which deaf methodologists and general social researchers can attain their bearings. In their introduction, the authors warn that their text may be troubling. The assumption is that its unnerving traits might aggrieve readers in both aforementioned categories. For experienced deaf researchers, disappointment would perhaps stem from Young and Temple’s occasionally ambiguous answers to the deft questions they pose. For instance, their characteristic problematizing stance on ethics concerning deaf identities is dropped in the final chapter, one that gushes with optimism for new communication technologies (thus neglecting potential problems for privacy and confidentiality in research). Perhaps the deaf research neophyte would be troubled by the paradoxical treatment of certain arguments and pressing controversies. For instance, the bioethics of cochlear implant technologies are scarcely mentioned. Elsewhere, readers may have concerns about the curious laissezfaire approach to the consequences of various orientations to epistemology. While Young

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关键地图：聋人研究图

地图只和制图师一样好。同样，它为希望获得指导的人们提供了实用程序。该陈述概括了社会研究方法：聋人研究案例，Alys Young和Bogusia Temple Young在聋人研究方法学文献中的及时补充，甚至是强制性的。当我阅读本书时，我设想了一个原始的景观，它随着地质，时间和人类影响的压力而演变成越来越可识别的远景。Young和Temple身材苗条但影响深远，不厌其烦地将聋人的社会研究描述为能动的，有时令人沮丧地难以捉摸。作者使用形容词（如流体，涌入，混合）来形容该领域从成立到现在的发展。这样，Young和Temple就像制图师一样工作，以捕获新近破裂的地形，破旧的路径和领域，为将来的动荡做好了准备。他们提出敏感的论据，提出尖锐的问题，并以经验丰富的和新手研究人员都认为有用的方式综合了数十年的研究。的确，作者最神奇的一项制图功绩是对两个不同听众的对待书主题的方法：对聋人研究的无定形景观熟悉和不熟悉的人。社会研究和聋人研究的并置提供了本书最引人入胜的论点：它对交叉授粉的潜在利益的公开立场。这样做，文本提供了一个有用的指南针，聋哑方法研究者和一般社会研究者可以借此获得帮助。作者在引言中警告说，他们的文字可能令人困扰。假设其不安的特征可能会使上述两个类别的读者感到厌烦。对于经验丰富的聋人研究人员，失望的原因可能是扬和邓普尔偶尔对他们提出的巧妙问题做出模棱两可的回答。例如，在最后一章中删除了他们关于聋人身份的典型问题化问题态度立场，这一章对新的通信技术持乐观态度（因此忽略了研究中的隐私和机密性潜在问题）。聋哑的研究新手可能会对某些论点和紧迫争议的矛盾处理感到困扰。例如，很少提及耳蜗植入技术的生物伦理学。别处，读者可能会对好奇主义的自由主义方法对认识论的各种取向的后果感到担忧。年轻的时候