The qualitative inquiry reader / Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Denzin, Norman K.

Lincoln, Yvonna S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology--Fieldwork.

Sociology.

Qualitative research.

Ethnology--Fieldwork.

Ethnology.

Sociology--Methodology.

Ethnology--Methodology.

Physical Description:

xvi, 399 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [2002]

Summary:

New from award winning editors Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln, The Qualitative Inquiry Reader offers the best of the popular SAGE journal, "Qualitative Inquiry." These collected works aim to introduce the necessary critical framework that will allow scholars and students scholars to interpret cutting edge work in the field of qualitative inquiry. By providing this framework, readers will then be able to use this work as it applies to critical political and moral discourses.

Features: The book includes examples from across the behavioral and social sciences Reader is divided into five sections: Reflexive Ethnography, Autoethnography, Poetics, Performance Narratives, Assessing the Text These sections reflect the ways in which contemporary researchers have implemented the narrative turn in their writing Contains cutting-edge work by top scholars in the field Introduces students and scholars to what??'s new in the field of qualitative inquiry

Contents:

Part 1 Reflexive Ethnography 1

1. Research as Relationship / Deborah Ceglowski 5

2. Three Short Stories / Christopher Dunbar, Jr. 25

3. Skirting a Pleated Text: De-Disciplining an Academic Life / Laurel Richardson 39

4. Circling the Text: Nomadic Writing Practices / Elizabeth Adams St.Pierre 51

Part 2 Autoethnography 71

5. Discovering My Mother as the Other in the Saturday Evening Post / Elena Tajima Creef 73

6. This I Know: An Exploration of Remembering Childhood and Knowing Now / Jean Halley 91

7. The Next Night Sous Rature: Wrestling with Derrida's Mimesis / Carol Rambo Ronai 105

8. On Becoming Italian American: An Autobiography of an Ethnic Identity / Richard V. Travisano 125

Part 3 Poetics 155

9. A Gift of the Journey / Ivan Brady 157

10. Two Microethnographies / Mark Nowak 159

11. The Anthro in Cali / Miles Richardson 163

12. Windows / Mary E. Weems 167

Part 4 Performance Narratives 181

13. Torch / Stacy Holman Jones 185

14. Always Dying: Living Between Da and Fort / Ronald J. Pelias 217

Part 5 Assessing the Text 229

15. Negotiated Validity in Collaborative Ethnography / Linda Liska Belgrave, Kenneth J. Smith 233

16. Criteria Against Ourselves / Arthur P. Bochner 257

17. Writing the "Wrongs" of Fieldwork: Confronting Our Own Research/Writing Dilemmas in Urban Ethnographies / Michelle Fine, Lois Weis 267

18. The Social Construction of Validity / Steinar Kvale 299

19. Emerging Criteria for Quality in Qualitative and Interpretive Research / Yvonna S. Lincoln 327

20. Confronting Anthropology's Silencing Praxis: Speaking Of/From a Chicana Consciousness / Monica Russel y Rodriguez 347.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0761924922

OCLC:

47521249