Description
New to the fourth edition:
- A streamlined structure to guide readers step-by-step through the research process
- Substantial new section with 4 chapters on how to collect and analyse online data
- A new chapter on reflexive ethnography
- More hands-on advice on how to conduct research at every stage, making this a perfect field handbook
- Updated reading lists provide a go-to guide to the literature and help improve citations
The most comprehensive qualitative research book available, this is the perfect all-in-one companion for any student embarking on a qualitative research course or project.
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Contents
- The Editor and Contributors
- PART I SETTING THE SCENE
- 1 Introducing Qualitative Research
- 2 Addressing Social Problems through Qualitative Research
- 3 Research Ethics and Qualitative Research
- PART II INTERVIEWS AND FOCUS GROUPS
- 4 The ‘Inside’ and the ‘Outside’: Finding Realities in Interviews
- 5 Narrative Practice and the Active Interview
- 6 Analysing Focus Group Data
- PART III ETHNOGRAPHY
- 7 What Is Ethnography?
- 8 Organizational Ethnography
- 9 Practising Reflexivity in Ethnography
- PART IV TEXTS
- 10 Analysing Documents through Fieldwork
- 11 Using Documents in Social Research
- PART V TALK
- 12 Discursive Psychology and the Study of Naturally Occurring Talk
- 13 Conversation Analysis: Practices and Methods
- PART VI EXPANDING TECHNOLOGIES
- 14 Internet/Digital Research
- 15 Online Interviewing
- 16 Using Conversation Analysis and Discursive Psychology to Analyse Online Data
- 17 Critical Discourse Studies and Social Media Data
- PART VII VISUAL DATA
- 18 Visual Inquiry: Issues and Developments
- 19 Embodied Action: Video and the Analysis of Social Interaction
- PART VIII QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS
- 20 Some Pragmatics of Qualitative Data Analysis
- 21 Constructing Grounded Theory Analyses
- 22 What’s Different about Narrative Inquiry? Cases, Categories and Contexts
- 23 Systematic Reviews and Qualitative Studies
- 24 Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data
- 25 Validity in Qualitative Research
- 26 Writing Qualitative Research: Practice, Genre and Audience
- Appendix: Transcription Conventions
- Author Index
- Subject Index