Synopses & Reviews
This exciting new book brings together contributions from leading scholars as well as younger researchers and focuses on cutting-edge issues related to the practice of qualitative research in the field. It provides a forum for contributors to discuss the issues and processes that inform qualitative research in its various forms as based on fieldwork experiences.
Synopsis
-This is an excellent collection at the cutting edge of thinking about qualitative research.... The breadth of coverage and the sophistication of the discussion make this an important addition to the increasing literature on qualitative work.-
- Jonathan Potter, Loughborough University
-This book is likely to have a broad appeal to a rising generation of qualitative researchers seeking to relate theoretical debates to methodological practice.-
- Clive Seale, Goldsmiths College
This exciting new book brings together contributions from world-leading scholars as well as younger researchers and focuses on cutting-edge issues related to the practice of qualitative research in the field. It provides a forum for contributors to discuss the issues and processes
which inform qualitative research in its various forms as based on fieldwork experiences.
In achieving this in an accessible manner to both practising students and researchers, it seeks to enable a dialogue over ideas and provide the reader with a state of the art' overview of the topic from a contemporary perspective.
Rather than being a how to do' book, this volume should prove vitally useful for advanced students and researchers who wish to engage with those ideas and practices in terms of their applicability for an understanding and explanation of the place of qualitative research in the social sciences. It is also a forum in which leading scholars make an original contribution to the subject.
Lively and highly readable throughout, Qualitative Research in Action will be essential reading for advanced undergraduates and above in a variety of disciplines, as well as researchers who wish to engage with contemporary ideas and practices in relation to qualitative research.
Synopsis
Rather than being a how to do' book, this volume will prove vitally useful for advanced students and researchers who wish to engage with those ideas and practices in terms of their applicability for an understanding and explanation of the place of qualitative research in the social sciences.
Table of Contents
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, responsiblity and reliability in participant-observation /Martâin Sâanchez-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.