The Landscape of Qualitative Research
- Norman K. Denzin - University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, USA
- Yvonna S. Lincoln - Texas A&M University, USA
The Landscape of Qualitative Research, Fourth Edition aims to put the field of qualitative research in context. It offers background on the field, starting with history, then action research and the academy, and the politics and ethics of qualitative research. It then isolates what we regard as the major historical and contemporary paradigms now structuring and influencing qualitative research in the human disciplines. The chapters move from competing paradigms (positivist, postpositivist, constructivist, critical theory) to specific interpretive perspectives, feminisms, racialized discourses, cultural studies, sexualities, and queer theory. It concludes with consideration for the future of qualitative research.
No researcher or student should be without this book! Wonderful and answers a lot of questions in the QR field.
This is a useful book or both students and teachers of qualitative research. It provides an informative history and discussion on the development of different methods of qualitative enquiry. In addition it has useful chapters on ethics and politics of qualitative methods and on teaching qualitative research.
Although an excellent text, this book is likely to appeal only to students heading for a first class honours degree, due to the breadth and depth of its content. I will consider the text as 'recommended' in future for postgraduate students, rather than undergraduates, for whom I will promote this as a supplementary text.
Fantastic background. Comprehensive, yet very accessible.
This text provides an important theoretical and methodological foundation for teaching students about contemporary qualitative research practice.
Denzin is well recognised in the field of qualitative research and in conjunction with the other books we recommend from sage, will provide the students with the necessary insights they need on this subject.
Denzin and Lincoln at their best as editors. A must have for those embarking and already involved in research.
An excellent book for those choosing qualitative research! Essential reading for qualitative PhD students