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Qualitative Research Practice

Edited by:
  • Clive Seale - University of London, UK, Brunel University, UK
  • Giampietro Gobo - University of Milan, Italy
  • Jaber F Gubrium - University of Missouri, USA
  • David Silverman - Visiting Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney and King’s College, London, Emeritus Professor at Goldsmiths’ College, Visiting Professor Emeritus at Leeds University Business School and Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology


February 2004 | 640 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
`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

Learning to do good qualitative research occurs most fortuitously by seeing what researchers actually do in particular projects and by incorporating their procedures and strategies into one's own research practice. This is one of the most powerful and pragmatic ways of bringing to bear the range of qualitative methodological perspectives available. The chapters in this important new volume 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.

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.


Clive Seale et al
Introduction
Inside Qualitative Research

 
 
PART ONE: ENCOUNTERING METHOD
Tim Rapley
Interviews
Joanna Bornat
Oral History
Gabriele Rosenthal
Biographical Research
Phil Macnaghten and Greg Myers
Focus Groups
Ian Dey
Grounded Theory
Paul Atkinson
Performance and Rehearsal
The Ethnographer at the Opera

 
 
PART TWO: ANALYTIC FRAMEWORKS
Molly Andrews et al
Narrative Research
Celia Kitzinger
Feminist Approaches
Gavin Kendall and Gary Wickham
The Foucaultian Framework
Paul ten Have
Ethnomethodology
Anssi Perakyla
Conversation Analysis
Alexa Hepburn and Jonathan Potter
Discourse Analytic Practice
Ruth Wodak
Critical Discourse Analysis
 
PART THREE: FIELD RELATIONS
Sara Delamont
Ethnography and Participant Observation
Anne Ryen
Ethical Issues
Nigel Fielding
Working in Hostile Environments
Les Back
Politics, Research and Understanding
Linda S Mitteness and Judith C Barker
Collaborative and Team Research
 
PART FOUR: CONTEXT AND METHOD
James Holstein and Jaber Gubrium
Context
Working it Up, Down and Across

 
Julia Brannen
Working Qualitatively and Quantitatively
Louise Corti and Paul Thompson
Secondary Analysis of Archived Data
Malin Akerstr[um]om, Katarina Jacobsson and David W[um]asterfors
Reanalysis of Previously Collected Material
Annette Markham
The Internet as Research Context
Lindsay Prior
Documents
Sarah Pink
Visual Methods
 
PART FIVE: QUALITY AND CREDIBILITY
Clive Seale
Quality in Qualitative Research
Bent Flyvbjerg
Five Misunderstandings about Case Study Research
Giampietro Gobo
Sampling, Representativeness and Generalizability
Bob Emerson
Working with `Key Incidents'
Udo Kelle
Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis
 
PART SIX: AUDIENCES AND APPLICATIONS
Janice Morse
Preparing and Evaluating Qualitative Research Proposals
Gill Ereaut
Qualitative Market Research
Moira Kelly
Qualitative Evaluation Research
Donna Ladkin
Action Research
Martyn Hammersley
Teaching Qualitative Method
Barbara Czarniawska
Writing a Social Science Monograph
Donileen Loseke and Spencer Cahill
Publishing Qualitative Manuscripts
 
PART SEVEN: THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
Pertti Alasuutari
The Globalization of Qualitative Research

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