Full Description
A new edition of Qualitative Research reflects its importance in the field, demonstrated by the 11000 citations of previous iterations. This sixth edition offers a newly updated introduction to cutting edge issues, written by leading scholars in our field. Chapters from the fifth edition have been revised and updated by their distinguished authors. In addition, reflecting the changing face of qualitative research in a digital age, five new chapters have been added:
Narrative ethnography [Gubrium, Holstein and Marvasti]
Document analysis [Lewis and Atkinson]
Analysing online data [Giles]
Using AI in qualitative analysis [Schmieder]
Ways of working with Visual and Online Data [Danby].
This new edition addresses what is missing from the methodology sections of many published journal articles, As Richard Fitzgerald has pointed out: 'The actual work of doing research is often sanitized or hidden in 'method reports'. This collection aims to supply what Fitzgerald calls the 'missing what' of research. It also offers a very different take on the nature of qualitative research [QR] from that found in many other articles and textbooks. We argue that:
QR is a theoretically driven enterprise
QR complements quantitative research in particular by entering into the 'black box' of how social phenomena [including interviews and focus groups] are constituted in real time
QR is as much about social practices as about experience
QR is, or should be, a credible, rigorous enterprise.
As an edited book, this is ideal for final year students, as well as people beginning masters and doctoral programmes. The most comprehensive qualitative research book available, it is the perfect all-in-one companion for any student embarking on a qualitative research course or project. It introduces students to the big picture of qualitative research, teaching both the 'why' and the 'how to' of getting started, selecting a method and conducting research and data analysis. It is written by world experts of the highest calibre who are upfront about their analytic positions, but distilled into an accessible language and format for beginning researchers who will soon be tackling their own research study, whether at an undergraduate or postgraduate level. The particular added value of Qualitative Research is that it gives you an entrée into qualitative methods from leading experts in the field who address the needs of students who need to brush up their research skills prior to their own research projects.
Contents
Part I: Setting The Scene
Chapter 1: Introducing Qualitative Research David Silverman
Chapter 2: Addressing Social Problems through Qualitative Research Ross Koppel and Joel Telles
Chapter 3: Ethics and qualitative research Anne Ryen
Part II: Interviews And Focus Groups
Chapter 4: The 'Inside' and the 'Outside': Finding Realities in Interviews Jody Miller and Barry Glassner
Chapter 5: Interviewing as a form of Narrative Practice James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium
Chapter 6: Analysing Focus Group Data Sue Wilkinson
Part III: Ethnography
Chapter 7: Ethnographic Practices: Theory, Method, Trends Erika Cellini and Giampietro Gobo
Chapter 8: Organizational Ethnography Thomas Eberle and Christoph Maeder
Chapter 9: Practising Reflexivity in Ethnography Marie Buscatto
Part IV: Texts
Chapter 10: Analysing Documents through Fieldwork Katarina Jacobsson
Chapter 11: Documents and Documentation Jamie Lewis and Paul Atkinson
Part V: Talk
Chapter 12: Discursive Psychology - cognition and emotion in interaction Jonathan
Chapter 13: Conversation Analysis: Practices and Methods John Heritage
Part VI: Expanding Technologies
Chapter 14: Analysing online data David C. Giles
Chapter 15: Using CDA on internet data Johann W. Unger, Ruth Wodak and Majid Khosravinik
Chapter 16: Researchers and Machines: Navigating the methodologically responsible use of Artificial Intelligence Tools in Data Analysis Christian Schmieder
Part VII: Visual Data
Chapter 17: Analysing visual data Susan Danby and Michael Emmison
Chapter 18: Video and the Analysis of Social Interaction Christian Heath
Part VIII: Qualitative Data Analysis
Chapter 19: Some pragmatics of qualitative data analysis Tim Rapley
Chapter 20: Multimethod Qualitative Research Nanna Mik-Meyer
Chapter 21: Constructing Grounded Theory Analyses Anthony Bryant and Kathy Charmaz
Chapter 22: Narrative ethnography and Everyday Storytelling Jaber Gubrium, James Holstein and Amir Marvasti
Chapter 23: Systematic reviews and qualitative methods Mary Dixon-Woods
Chapter 24: Secondary analysis of qualitative data Libby Bishop
Chapter 25: Validity in research Anssi Peräkylä
Chapter 26: The three faces of writing qualitative research: practice, genre and audience Amir Marvasti
