Qualitative research in action / edited by Tim May.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

May, Tim, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Methodology.

Social sciences.

Qualitative research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 402 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rather than being a how-to book, this volume examines the ideas and practices of qualitative research in terms of their applicability for an understanding and explanation of the place of qualitative research in the social sciences.

Contents:

Introduction: transformation in principles and practice

Pt. 1. Putting the practice into theory

Institutional ethnography / Dorothy E. Smith

Critical realist ethnography / Sam Porter

Framing the rational in fieldwork / Peter K. Manning

Analysing interaction: video, ethnography and situated conduct / Christian Heath, Jon Hindmarsh

Pt. 2. Generalization, interpretation and analysis

Generalization in interpretive research / Malcolm Williams

Representation, responsibility and reliability in participant-observation / Martin Sanchez-Jankowski

Automating the ineffable: qualitative software and the meaning of qualitative research / Nigel G. Fielding

Subjectivity and qualitative method / Valerie Walkerdine, Helen Lucey, June Melody

Pt. 3. Choices in context

Observation and interviewing: options and choices in qualitative research / Kathleen Gerson, Ruth Horowitz

Qualitative interviewing: asking, listening and interpreting / Jennifer Mason

Narrative in social research / Steph Lawler

Pt. 4. Power, participation and expertise

Engagement and evaluation in qualitative inquiry / Linda McKie

Negotiating power and expertise in the field / Lynne Haney

On relations between black female researchers and participants / Tracey Reynolds

Pt. 5. Reflexivity, the self and positioning

Ethnography and self: reflections and representations / Amanda Coffey

Reflexivity and the politics of qualitative research / Lisa Adkins

Techniques for telling the reflexive self / Beverley Skeggs

Emotions, fieldwork and professional lives / Sherryl Kleinman.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786610369683

9781446232460

1446232468

9781849209656

1849209650

9781280369681

128036968X

9781412932875

1412932874

OCLC:

191036582