A Companion to Qualitative Research

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Notes on Editors and Contributors......Page 10
Preface......Page 14
Part 1: Introduction......Page 16
1 - What is Qualitative Research? An Introduction to the Field......Page 18
Part 2: Qualitative Research in Action: Paradigmatic Research Styles......Page 28
2.1 - Anselm Strauss......Page 32
2.2 - Erving Goffman......Page 39
2.3 - Harold Garfinkel and Harvey Sacks......Page 44
2.4 - Paul Willis and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies......Page 50
2.5 - Paul Parin, Fritz Morgenthaler and Goldy Parin-Matthey......Page 55
2.6 - Clifford Geertz......Page 62
2.7 - Norman K. Denzin: Life in Transit......Page 68
2.8 - Marie Jahoda......Page 73
Part 3: The Theory of Qualitative Research......Page 78
3.1 - Phenomenological Life-world Analysis......Page 82
3.2 - Ethnomethodology......Page 87
3.3 - Symbolic Interactionism......Page 96
3.4 - Constructivism......Page 103
3.5 - Social Scientific Hermeneutics......Page 110
3.6 - Qualitative Biographical Research......Page 116
3.7 - Qualitative Generation Research......Page 123
3.8 - Life-world Analysis in Ethnography......Page 128
3.9 - Cultural Studies......Page 133
3.10 - Gender Studies......Page 138
3.11 - Organzational Analysis......Page 144
3.12 - Qualitative Evaluation Research......Page 152
Part 4: Methodology and Qualitative Research......Page 158
4.1 - Design and Process in Qualitative Research......Page 161
4.2 - Hypotheses and Prior Knowledge in Qualitative Research......Page 168
4.3 - Abduction, Deduction and Induction in Qualitative Research......Page 174
4.4 - Selection Procedures, Sampling, Case Construction......Page 180
4.5 - Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: Not in Opposition......Page 187
4.6 - Triangulation in Qualitative Research......Page 193
4.7 - Quality Criteria in Qualitative Research......Page 199
Part 5: Doing Qualitative Research......Page 206
5.1 - Ways into the Field and their Variants......Page 210
5.2 - Qualitative Interviiew: An Overview......Page 218
5.3 - Interviewing as an Activity......Page 224
5.4 - Group Discussion and Focus Groups......Page 229
5.5 - Field Observation and Ethnography......Page 237
5.6 - Photography as Social Science Data......Page 246
5.7 - Reading Film: Using Films and Videos as Empirical Social Science Material......Page 252
5.8 - Electronic Process Data and Analysis......Page 258
5.9 - The Transcription of Coversations......Page 263
5.10 - The Analysis of Semi-structured Interviews......Page 268
5.11 - The Analysis of Narrative-biographical Interviews......Page 274
5.12 - Qualitative Content Analysis......Page 281
5.13 - Theoretical Coding: Text Analysis in Grounded Theory......Page 285
5.14 - Computer-assisted Analysis of Qualitative Data......Page 291
5.15 - Analysis of Documents and Records......Page 299
5.16 - Objective Hermeneutics and Hermeneutic Sociology ok Knowledge......Page 305
5.17 - Conversation Analysis......Page 311
5.18 - Genre Analysis......Page 318
5.19 - Discourse Analysis......Page 323
5.20 - Deep-structure Hermeneutics......Page 328
5.21 - The Art of Interpretation......Page 336
5.22 - The Presentation of Qualitative Research......Page 341
Part 6: Qualitative Research in Context......Page 346
6.1 - Research Ethics and Qualitative Research......Page 349
6.2 - Teaching Qualitative Research......Page 355
6.3 - Utilization of Qualitative Research......Page 364
6.4 - The Future Prospects of Qualitative Research......Page 369
6.5 - The Challenges of Qualitative Research......Page 374
6.6 - The Art of Procedure, Methodological Innovation and Theory-formation in Qualitative Research......Page 380
Part 7: Resources......Page 386
7.1 - Resources for Qualitative Researchers......Page 388
References......Page 396
Author Index......Page 436
Subject Index......Page 443