Qualitative research practice / edited by Clive Seale, Giampietro Gobo, Jaber F. Gubrium, David Silverman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Seale, Clive.

Gobo, Giampietro.

Gubrium, Jaber F.

Silverman, David, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qualitative research.

Social sciences--Research.

Social sciences.

Social sciences--Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 534 p.)

Edition:

Concise pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE, 2007.

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2007, c2004.

Summary:

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:

Introduction: Inside Qualitative Research

Part 1: Encountering Method

Chapter 1 - Interviews

Chapter 2 - Oral history

Chapter 3 - Biographical research

Chapter 4 - Focus groups

Chapter 5 - Grounded theory

Part 2 - Analytic Frameworks

Chapter 6 - Narrative research

Chapter 7 - Feminist approaches

Chapter 8 - The Foucaultian framework

Chapter 9 - Ethnomethodology

Chapter 10 - Conversation analysis

Chapter 11 - Discourse analytic practice

Chapter 12 - Critical discourse analysis

Part 3: Field Relations

Chapter 13 - Ethnography and participant observation

Chapter 14 - Ethical issues

Chapter 15 - Working in hostile environments

Chapter 16 - Politics, research and understanding

Part 4: Context and Method

Chapter 17 - Context: working it up , down, and across

Chapter 18 - Working qualitatively and quantitatively

Chapter 19 - Secondary analysis of archived data

Chapter 20 - Renanalysis of previously collected material

Chapter 21 - The Internet as research context

Chapter 22 - Documents

Chapter 23 - Visual methods

Part 5: Quality and Credibility

Chapter 24 - Quality in qualitative research

Chapter 25 - Five misunderstandings about case-study research

Chapter 26 - Sampling, representativeness and generalizability

Chapter 27 - Working with 'key incidents'

Chapter 28 - Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis

Part 6: Audiences, Applications and the International Context

Chapter 29 - Qualitative evaluation research

Chapter 30 - Action research

Chapter 31 - Publishing qualitative manuscripts: lessons learned

Chapter 32 - The globalization of qualitative research

Index.

Notes:

Originally published: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781848608191

1848608195

9781446204580

1446204588

9781412934206

1412934206

9781446275733

1446275736

OCLC:

847624808