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Qualitative research methods / Pranee Liamputtong.
Holman Biotech Commons R853.Q34 R53 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Liamputtong, Pranee, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health--Research--Methodology.
- Health.
- Medicine--Research--Methodology.
- Medicine.
- Qualitative research--Methodology.
- Qualitative research.
- Health Services Research--methods.
- Quality Assurance, Health Care.
- Medical Subjects:
- Health Services Research--methods.
- Quality Assurance, Health Care.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 384 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- South Melbourne, Vic. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- This book is a practical guide to conducting and analyzing qualitative research. Now in its third edition, Qualitative Research Methods describes the research process from beginning to end, and engages with the theoretical and philosophical debates surroundin research. This new edition: describes methodological issues and presents a step-by-step guide to qualitative research techniques; explains both established, as well as more innovative and complex methods; includes two new chapters--one on qualitative case study research, and another on grounded theory research; builds on the popular chapters on cyber research and reserach with vulnerable groups; includes practical chapters on writing proposals and research reports, and has an expanded section on ethics.
- Contents:
- Background to qualitative research
- Theoretical frameworks and sampling in qualitative research
- Rigour and ethics in qualitative research
- Types of qualitative research methods
- The in-depth interviewing method
- Focus groups
- Unobstrusive methods
- Narrative enquiry methodology: life and oral history, life story and biographical research
- Memory-work
- Ethnography
- Participatory action research
- Qualitative case study research
- Grounded theory research
- Applications of qualitative research
- Researching the vulnerable
- Going online: doing qualitative research in cyberspace
- Making sense of qualitative data: the analysis process
- Writing a qualitative research proposal
- Writing a qualitative research report
- Qualitative research: new directions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-378) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195551433
- 0195551435
- OCLC:
- 300257651
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