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Record Nr.

UNINA9910954346203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

9781848608191 (ebook) :

9781848608191

1848608195

9781446204580 (e-book)

1446204588

9781412934206 (pbk.)

1412934206

9781446275733

1446275736

Edizione

[Concise pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 534 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SealeClive

GoboGiampietro

GubriumJaber F

SilvermanDavid <1943->

Disciplina

300.72

Soggetti

Qualitative research

Social sciences - Research

Social sciences - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2004.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.