Description
Examine qualitative research as evidence-based stories of social life.
Doing Qualitative Research shows how qualitative research is evidence-based stories of our social life.
By the time readers complete this book, they will be able to conduct their own research and understand the pleasures and perils of qualitative research. This text is ideal for classes in disciplines such as cultural studies, anthropology, political science, ethnic studies, women and gender studies, the media, journalism and communications, organizational behavior, and more.
Learning Goals
Upon completing this book, readers should be able to:
- Assess others' research and develop their own research
- Understand the scientific method, broadly defined and adapted to understanding human beings
- Analyze with a critical and reflexive style of research – readers should understand how their own lives affect how others are seen
- Link theory and research
- Understand the macro-micro linkages created by qualitative research
Table of Contents
IN THIS SECTION:
1.) BRIEF
2.) COMPREHENSIVE
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Part I: Getting Started: Thinking about Research Choices
Part II: Choosing a Research Design
Part III: Focus on Ethnography
Part IV: Choices from the Methods Tool Kit
Part V: Telling the Story
COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Part I: Getting Started: Thinking about Research Choices
Chapter 1: Introduction: Logic of Inquiry, Research Designs and Strategies, and the Methods Tool Kit
Chapter 2: A Brief History of Qualitative Research
Chapter 3: Asking Research Questions
Chapter 4: The Ethics of Qualitative Research
Chapter 5: The Politics of Qualitative Research
Chapter 6: Integrating Theory into Qualitative Research: Foundational, Grounded, and Critical-Reflexive Theories
Part II: Choosing a Research Design
Chapter 7: Ethnography: An Overview
Chapter 8: Historical-Comparative Research
Chapter 9: Social Autopsies: Adverse Events and What They Tell Us about Society
Chapter 10: Community-Based Participatory Research and Action Research
Chapter 11: The Analysis of Cultural Objects and Discourses as a Research Design
Chapter 12: Multi-Method Designs
Part III: Focus on Ethnography
Chapter 13: Ethnography: Entering the Field
Chapter 14: Ethnography: Types of Data
Chapter 15: Ethnography: Writing Field Notes
Chapter 16: Directed Strategies for Data-Making
Part IV: Choices from the Methods Tool-kit
Chapter 17: Observation, Participant-Observation and Carnal Sociology
Chapter 18: Interviewing
Chapter 19: Focus Groups
Chapter 20: Life Narratives
Chapter 21: Visual Methods
Chapter 22: Software for Qualitative Analysis
Part V: Telling the Story
Chapter 23: Preparing a Research Report
Chapter 24: Wrapping It Up: Ethical, Political, Legal and Emotional Challenges
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