David Silverman & Clive Seale 
Qualitative Research Practice [EPUB ebook] 
Concise Paperback Edition

′This book is jam-packed with a wide range of material related to qualitative research…. [T]his is a quality text and has much to offer the reader, especially the novice researcher′ –
Nurse Researcher

`This comprehensive collection of almost 40 chapters – each written by a leading expert in the field – is the essential reference for anyone undertaking or studying qualitative research. It covers a diversity of methods and a variety of perspectives and is a very practical and informative guide for newcomers and experienced researchers alike′ – John Scott, University of Essex

`The best ways in which to understand the issues and processes informing qualitative research is to learn from the accounts of its leading practitioners. Here they come together in what is a distinctive and wide-ranging collection that will appeal to postgraduates and social researchers in general′ – Tim May, University of Salford

`This excellent guide engages in a dialogue with a wide range of expert qualitative researchers, each of whom considers their own practice in an illuminating and challenging way. Overall, the book constitutes an authoritative survey of current methods of qualitative research data collection and analysis′ – Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey

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.

Cuprins

Introduction – Clive Seale et al

Inside Qualitative Research

PART ONE: ENCOUNTERING METHOD

Interviews – Tim Rapley

Oral History – Joanna Bornat

Biographical Research – Gabriele Rosenthal

Focus Groups – Phil Macnaghten and Greg Myers

Grounded Theory – Ian Dey

PART TWO: ANALYTIC FRAMEWORKS

Narrative Research – Molly Andrews et al

Feminist Approaches – Celia Kitzinger

The Foucaultian Framework – Gavin Kendall and Gary Wickham

Ethnomethodology – Paul ten Have

Conversation Analysis – Anssi Peräkylä

Discourse Analytic Practice – Alexa Hepburn and Jonathan Potter

Critical Discourse Analysis – Ruth Wodak

PART THREE: FIELD RELATIONS

Ethnography and Participant Observation – Sara Delamont

Ethical Issues – Anne Ryen

Working in Hostile Environments – Nigel Fielding

Politics, Research and Understanding – Les Back

PART FOUR: CONTEXT AND METHOD

Context – James A Holstein and Jaber F Gubrium

Working It Up, Down and Across

Working Qualitatively and Quantitatively – Julia Brannen

Secondary Analysis of Archived Data – Louise Corti and Paul Thompson

Reanalysis of Previously Collected Material – Malin Åkerström, Katarina Jacobsson and David Wästerfors

The Internet as Research Context – Annette N Markham

Documents – Lindsay Prior

Visual Methods – Sarah Pink

PART FIVE: QUALITY AND CREDIBILITY

Quality in Qualitative Research – Clive Seale

Five Misunderstandings about Case-Study Research – Bent Flyvbjerg

Sampling, Representatives and Generalizability – Giampietro Gobo

Working with ′Key Incidents′ – Robert M Emerson

Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis – Udo Kelle

PART SIX: AUDIENCES AND APPLICATIONS AND THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT

Qualitative Evaluation Research – Moira J Kelly

Action Research – Donna Ladkin

Publishing Qualitative Manuscripts – Donileen R Loseke and Spencer E Cahill

Lessons Learned

The Globalization of Qualitative Research – Pertti Alasuutari

Despre autor

Giampietro Gobo is Professor of Methodology of Social Research and Sociology of Science at the University of Milan (Italy). He was one of the founders of the ‘Qualitative Methods’ Research Network of the European Sociological Association. His interests concern scientific controversies on health issues and workplace studies. He is currently undertaking projects on immunization and COVID-19 policies, and ethnographic experiments in the area of cooperation in small teamwork. His books include Doing Ethnography (Sage, 2008), Qualitative Research Practice (co-edited with C. Seale, J. F. Gubrium and D. Silverman, Sage, 2004) and Constructing Survey Data: An Interactional Approach (with S. Mauceri, Sage, 2014).