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Qualitative Research
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Qualitative Research

Four Volume Set
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August 1999 | 1 712 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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Qualitative Research brings together all of the major topics and issues in qualitative research in this major work which assembles the best published material in this field. Collectively, the contributions: give a panoramic view of qualitative research today; reflect the international and interdisciplinary character of qualitative research; document the essential issues in qualitative research; and demonstrate the relations between different research traditions.

Each of the four volumes carry an 8-10,000 word introduction which places the examination of qualitative research issues in the appropriate historical and intellectual context.

Volume 1 covers the fundamental issues about qualitative research, including epistemological ones. A wide range of case-studies are included.

Volume 2 covers the different methods with which qualitative research is associated.

Volume 3 deals with the analysis and interpretation of qualitative data, as well as with writing up the results of research.

Volume 4 contains selections relating to a wide range of specific issues in qualitative research in the appropriate historical and intellectual context.

 
VOLUME ONE: FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
 
PART ONE: PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES
Max Weber
The Fundamental Concepts of Sociology
Herbert Blumer
What Is Wrong with Social Theory?
 
PART TWO: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Alan Bryman
The Debate about Quantitative and Qualitative Research
Martyn Hammersley
Deconstructing the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide
Robert G Carlson et al
Attitudes toward Needle `Sharing' among Injection Drug Users
Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods

 
 
PART THREE: DEFINING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Silvia Gherardi and Barry Turner
Real Men Don't Collect Soft Data
Jaber F Gubrium and James A Holstein
Method Talk
 
PART FOUR: RESEARCH DESIGN
Kathleen M Eisenhardt
Building Theories from Case Study Research
Jennifer Platt
What Can Case Studies Do?
J Clyde Mitchell
Case and Situation Analysis
 
PART FIVE: THE RESEARCH PROCESS
Lawrence Stenhouse
Library Access, Library Use and User Education in Academic Sixth Forms
An Autobiographical Account

 
Robert G Burgess
Scholarship and Sponsored Research
Contradiction, Continuum or Complementary Activity

 
Julius A Roth
Hired Hand Research
 
PART SIX: GAINING RESEARCH ACCESS
Donald Roy
The Study of Southern Labor Unions Organizing Campaigns
John Van Maanen
Playing Back the Tape
Early Days in the Field

 
 
PART SEVEN: SAMPLING
Janet Finch and Jennifer Mason
Decision Taking in the Fieldwork Process
Theoretical Sampling and Collaborative Working

 
Leonard Schatzman and Anselm L Strauss
Strategy for Getting Organized
 
PART EIGHT: USING INFORMANTS
Robert G Burgess
In the Company of Teachers
Key Informants and the Study of a Comprehensive School

 
Valerie J Gilchrist
Key Informant Interviews
 
VOLUME TWO: METHODS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
 
PART ONE: PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION
Paul Rock
Participant Observation
Herbert J Gans
The Participant-Observer as a Human Being
Observations on the Personal Aspects of Field Work

 
Howard S Becker
Problems of Inference and Proof in Participant Observation
 
PART TWO: INTERVIEWING
Janet Finch
`It's Great to Have Someone to Talk to'
The Ethics and Politics of Interviewing Women

 
Marianne A Paget
Experience and Knowledge
James A Holstein and Jaber F Gubrium
Active Interviewing
 
PART THREE: FOCUS GROUPS
Robert K Merton
The Focused Interview and Focus Groups
Continuities and Discontinuities

 
Jenny Kitzinger
The Methodology of Focus Groups
The Importance of Interaction between Research Participants

 
 
PART FOUR: LIFE HISTORY AND ORAL HISTORY
Liz Stanley
On Auto/Biography in Sociology
Howard S Becker
Introduction to The Jack Roller
Ronald J Grele
Movement without Aim
Methodological and Theoretical Problems in Oral History

 
Joanna Bornat
Is Oral History Auto/Biography?
 
PART FIVE: DOCUMENTARY RESEARCH
Jennifer Platt
Evidence and Proof in Documentary Research
1 Some Specific Problems of Documentary Research

 
Jennifer Platt
Evidence and Proof in Documentary Research
2 Some Shared Problems of Documentary Research

 
David L Altheide
Qualitative Media Analysis
 
PART SIX: DIARIES
Robert G Burgess
Keeping a Research Diary
Linda Bell
Public and Private Meanings in Diaries
Researching Family and Childcare

 
 
PART SEVEN: PHOTOGRAPHS, FILMS AND VIDEO
Rob Walker
Finding a Silent Voice for the Researcher
Using Photographs in Evaluation and Research

 
Paul Henley
Film-Making and Ethnographic Research
 
PART EIGHT: CONVERSATION AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Jonathan Potter
Discourse Analysis as a Way of Analyzing Naturally Occurring Talk
David Silverman
Analyzing Conversation
Harvey Sacks
An Initial Investigation of the Usability of Conversational Data for Doing Sociology
 
VOLUME THREE: ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF QUALITATIVE DATA
 
PART ONE: FIELDWORK NOTES AND TRANSCRIPTS
John Lofland and Lyn H Lofland
Data Logging in Observation
Fieldnotes

 
Blake D Poland
Transcription Quality as an Aspect of Rigor in Qualitative Research
Blanche Geer
First Days in the Field
 
PART TWO: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEORY AND DATA IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Martyn Hammersley
What's Wrong with Ethnography? The Myth of Theoretical Description
Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin
Grounded Theory Methodology
An Overview

 
Celia J Orona
Temporality and Identity Loss Due to Alzheimer's Disease
 
PART THREE: ANALYTIC STRATEGIES
W S Robinson
The Logical Sructure of Analytic Induction
Robin Williams
Symbolic Interactionism
The Fusion of Theory and Research?

 
Richard H Hycner
Some Guidelines for the Phenomenological Analysis of Interview Data
 
PART FOUR: COMPUTERS IN QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS
Amanda Coffey, Beverley Holbrook and Paul Atkinson
Qualitative Data Analysis
Technologies and Representations

 
K Buston
NUD·IST in Action
Its Use and Its Usefulness in a Study of Chronic Illness in Young People

 
 
PART FIVE: NARRATIVE ANALYSIS
Martin Cortazzi
Sociological and Sociolinguistic Models of Narrative
Tim Booth
Sounds of Still Voices
Issues in the Use of Narrative Methods with People Who Have Learning Difficulties

 
Stephen R Barley
The Codes of the Dead
The Semiotics of Funeral Work

 
Mark Gottdiener
Dreams, Visions and Commercial Spaces
 
PART SIX: POSTMODERNISM MEETS ETHNOGRAPHY
James Clifford
On Ethnographic Authority
Norman K Denzin
Evaluating Qualitative Research in the Poststructural Moment
The Lessons James Joyce Teaches Us

 
Peter K Manning
The Challenges of Postmodernism
 
PART SEVEN: WRITING
Clifford Geertz
Thick Description
Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture

 
Karen Golden-Biddle and Karen Locke
Appealing Work
An Investigation of How Ethnographic Texts Convince

 
 
PART EIGHT: VALIDATION ISSUES
Yvonna S Lincoln and Egon Guba
Establishing Trustworthiness
Michael Bloor
On the Analysis of Observational Data
A Discussion of the Worth and Uses of Inductive Techniques and Respondent Validation

 
 
PART NINE: QUALITATIVE DATA AND ARCHIVING
Martyn Hammersley
Qualitative Data Archiving
Some Reflections on Its Prospects and Problems

 
Louise Corti, Janet Foster and Paul Thompson
Archiving Qualitative Research Data
 
VOLUME FOUR: ISSUES IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
 
PART ONE: ETHICAL ISSUES
Martin Bulmer
Ethical Problems in Social Research
The Case of Covert Participant Observation

 
Erich Goode
The Ethics of Deception in Social Research
A Case Study

 
Howard S Becker
Whose Side Are We on?
 
PART TWO: ISSUES OF GENDER AND FEMINISM
Ann Oakley
Interviewing Women
A Contradiction in Terms

 
Maria Mies
Toward a Methodology for Feminist Research
Marjorie L DeVault
Talking and Listening from Women's Standpoint
Feminist Strategies for Interviewing and Analysis

 
 
PART THREE: CULTURAL DIFFERENCE
Miri Song and David Parker
Commonality, Difference and the Dynamics of Disclosure in In-Depth Interviewing
Margaret L Anderson
Studying across Difference
Race, Class and Gender in Qualitative Research

 
 
PART FOUR: QUALITATIVE EVALUATION RESEARCH
Michael Quinn Patton
The Nature of Qualitative Enquiry
Michael S Knapp
Ethnographic Contributions to Evaluation Research
The Experimental Schools Program Evaluation and Some Alternatives

 
 
PART FIVE: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH AND POLICY
Janet Finch
Developing Policy-Oriented Qualitative Research
Rhoda Hurst Rojiani
Disparities in the Social Construction of Long-Term Care
 
PART SIX: ACTION RESEARCH
Alison Kelly
Action Research
What Is It and What Can It Do?

 
Margrit K Hugentobler, Barbara A Israel and Susan J Schurman
An Action Research Approach to Workplace Health
Integrating Methods

 
 
PART SEVEN: PRACTITIONER RESEARCH
Gordon Griffiths
Doubts, Dilemmas and Diary-Keeping
Some Reflections on Teacher-Based Research

 
Michael Bloor and Neil McKeganey
Ethnography Addressing the Practitioner
 
PART EIGHT: GETTING OUT
Stephen J Taylor
Leaving the Field
Research, Relationships and Responsibilities

 
David L Altheide
Leaving the Newsroom
 
PART NINE: DISSEMINATION
D H J Morgan
The British Association Scandal
The Effect of Publicity on a Sociological Investigation

 
Peter Adler
The Sociologist as Celebrity
The Role of the Media in Field Research

 
 
PART TEN: RESTUDIES
Robert G Burgess
Studying and Restudying Bishop McGregor School
W A Marianne Boelen
Street Corner Society
Cornerville Revisited

 
William Foote Whyte
In Defense of Street Corner Society

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