Qualitative research in action (SAGE, 2002)
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Introduction: transformation in principles and practice -- - pt. 1. Putting the practice into theory -- - Institutional ethnography - Dorothy E. Smith -- - Critical realist ethnography - Sam Porter -- - Framing the rational in fieldwork - Peter K. Manning -- - Analysing interaction: video, ethnography and situated conduct - Christian Heath, Jon Hindmarsh -- - pt. 2. Generalization, interpretation and analysis -- - Generalization in interpretive research - Malcolm Williams -- - Representation, responsibility and reliability in participant-observation - Martín Sánchez-Jankowski -- - Automating the ineffable: qualitative software and the meaning of qualitative research - Nigel G. Fielding -- - Subjectivity and qualitative method - Valerie Walkerdine, Helen Lucey, June Melody -- - pt. 3. Choices in context -- - Observation and interviewing: options and choices in qualitative research - Kathleen Gerson, Ruth Horowitz -- - Qualitative interviewing: asking, listening and interpreting - Jennifer Mason -- - Narrative in social research - Steph Lawler -- - pt. 4. Power, participation and expertise -- - Engagement and evaluation in qualitative inquiry - Linda McKie -- - Negotiating power and expertise in the field - Lynne Haney -- - On relations between black female researchers and participants - Tracey Reynolds -- - pt. 5. Reflexivity, the self and positioning -- - Ethnography and self: reflections and representations - Amanda Coffey -- - Reflexivity and the politics of qualitative research - Lisa Adkins -- - Techniques for telling the reflexive self - Beverley Skeggs -- - Emotions, fieldwork and professional lives - Sherryl Kleinman
Includes bibliographical references and index
Rather than being a how-to book, this volume examines the ideas and practices of qualitative research in terms of their applicability for an understanding and explanation of the place of qualitative research in the social sciences