Qualitative Research Practice: Concise Paperback EditionClive Seale, David Silverman, Jaber F Gubrium, Giampietro Gobo ′This book is jam-packed with a wide range of material related to qualitative research.... [T]his is a quality text and has much to offer the reader, especially the novice researcher′ - Nurse Researcher `This comprehensive collection of almost 40 chapters - each written by a leading expert in the field - is the essential reference for anyone undertaking or studying qualitative research. It covers a diversity of methods and a variety of perspectives and is a very practical and informative guide for newcomers and experienced researchers alike′ - John Scott, University of Essex `The best ways in which to understand the issues and processes informing qualitative research is to learn from the accounts of its leading practitioners. Here they come together in what is a distinctive and wide-ranging collection that will appeal to postgraduates and social researchers in general′ - Tim May, University of Salford `This excellent guide engages in a dialogue with a wide range of expert qualitative researchers, each of whom considers their own practice in an illuminating and challenging way. Overall, the book constitutes an authoritative survey of current methods of qualitative research data collection and analysis′ - Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey This concise paperback edition of the best selling handbook, Qualitative Research Practice, is particularly aimed at the student reader. The chapters are written by leading, internationally distinguished qualitative researchers who recount and reflect on their own research experiences as well as others, past and present, from whom they have learned. It demonstrates the benefits of using particular methods from the viewpoint of real-life experience. This is also a good philosophy for students to adopt in planing research work: to begin from a practical conception of the research process and to treat a book like this as an opportunity to learn a valuable craft. From the outside, good research seems to be produced through practitioners learning and following standard theoretical, empirical and procedural formats. But from the inside we learn that qualitative research (like other forms of scientific endeavour) is also a biographical engagement, rendering its scholarly and practical contributions in its own terms. Standards take on practical meaning as the distinct activities of qualitative research resonate throughout the enterprise, complicating its accountability to itself and to others. In an authoritative yet accessible manner, Qualitative Research Practice reveals the special features of this engagement, teaching us that qualitative research is as much a craft and practice as it is a way of knowing. Presenting a comprehensive examination of contemporary and traditional varieties of qualitative research practice, Qualitative Research Practice will be an invaluable resource for advanced students and researchers in any discipline. It is an essential and definitive guide to the major forms of qualitative methods in use today, written by leaders in the relevant fields of research practice. |
Contents
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Chapter 3 Biographical research | 48 |
Chapter 4 Focus groups | 65 |
Chapter 5 Grounded theory | 80 |
Part II Analytic Frameworks | 95 |
working it up down and across | 267 |
Chapter 18 Working qualitatively and quantitatively | 282 |
Chapter 19 Secondary analysis of archived data | 297 |
Chapter 20 Renanalysis of previously collected material | 314 |
Chapter 21 The Internet as research context | 328 |
Chapter 22 Documents | 345 |
Chapter 23 Visual methods | 361 |
Quality and Credibility | 377 |
Chapter 6 Narrative research | 97 |
Chapter 7 Feminist approaches | 113 |
Chapter 8 The Foucaultian framework | 129 |
Chapter 9 Ethnomethodology | 139 |
Chapter 10 Conversation analysis | 153 |
Chapter 11 Discourse analytic practice | 168 |
Chapter 12 Critical discourse analysis | 185 |
Field Relations | 203 |
Chapter 13 Ethnography and participant observation | 205 |
Chapter 14 Ethical issues | 218 |
Chapter 15 Working in hostile environments | 236 |
Chapter 16 Politics research and understanding | 249 |
Context and Method | 265 |
Chapter 24 Quality in qualitative research | 379 |
Chapter 25 Five misunderstandings about casestudy research | 390 |
Chapter 26 Sampling representativeness and generalizability | 405 |
Chapter 27 Working with key incidents | 427 |
Chapter 28 Computerassisted qualitative data analysis | 443 |
Audiences Applications and the International Context | 461 |
Chapter 29 Qualitative evaluation research | 463 |
Chapter 30 Action research | 478 |
lessons learned | 491 |
Chapter 32 The globalization of qualitative research | 507 |
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Qualitative Research Practice Clive Seale,Giampietro Gobo,Jaber F Gubrium,David Silverman Limited preview - 2004 |