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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961964503321

Autore

Cardano Mario

Titolo

Defending qualitative research : design, analysis and textualization / / Mario Cardano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2020

ISBN

0-429-87501-0

0-429-46423-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 pages)

Collana

Routledge advances in research methods

Disciplina

001.42

Soggetti

Research - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 A premise about two crucial issues: invisibility and method -- 2 Qualitative research: a portrait -- 3 The theory-of-argumentation survival kit -- 4 The qualitative research design -- 5 On qualitative data analysis -- 6 The textualization -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Focusing on the phases of qualitative research which precede and follow fieldwork - design, analysis, and textualization - this book offers new theoretical tools to tackle one of the most common criticisms advanced against qualitative research: its presumed lack of rigour. Rejecting the notion of 'rigour' as formulated in quantitative research and based on the theory of probability, it proposes a theoretical frame that allows combining the goals of rigour and that of creativity through the reference to theory of argumentation. As such, it will appeal to scholars and students across the social sciences with interests in qualitative research methods"--