Context and Method in Qualitative Research
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Context and Method in Qualitative Research

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Context and Method in Qualitative Research

About this book

A critical examination of the principles and practice of qualitative research is provided in this book which examines the interplay between context and method, making it invaluable for both the experienced and the beginning researcher.

A range of methodological and practical issues central to the concerns of qualitative researchers are addressed. These include: the validity and plausibility of qualitative methods; the problems encountered using specific techniques in a range of social settings; and the moral issues raised in qualitative research. These themes are related to practical issues which are illustrated by a breadth of examples and in-depth case studies.

The contributors look at the methods and strategies that they have used to study everyday life, and make suggestions to readers on why and how they might conduct their own studies. They raise issues that go beyond `cookbook? discussions of issues such as how to enter social settings, manage the subjects of one?s research and ask `good? questions in the process of formulating research strategies. These issues are addressed within the framework of the larger purposes and uses of qualitative research where specific methodological problems are not used as ends in themselves.

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Yes, you can access Context and Method in Qualitative Research by Gale Miller, Robert Dingwall, Gale Miller,Robert Dingwall in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Social Science Research & Methodology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction: Context and Method in Qualitative Research
  5. PART I: Validity and Credibility in Qualitative Research
  6. 1 - The Logics of Qualitative Research
  7. 2 - Producing ’Plausible Stories’: Interviewing Student Nurses
  8. 3 - Techniques of Validation in Qualitative Research: a Critical Commentary
  9. PART II: Methodological Issues in Qualitative Research
  10. 4 - Accounts, Interviews and Observations
  11. 5 - Problems with Interviewing: Experiences with Service Providers and Clients
  12. 6 - Contextualizing Texts: Studying Organizational Texts
  13. 7 - Using Computers in Strategic Qualitative Research
  14. 8 - Dramaturgy and Methodology
  15. PART III: Analysiing Institutions and Organizations
  16. 9 - Network Analysis and Qualitative Research: a Method of Contextualization
  17. 10 - The Interactional Study of Organizations:a Critique and Reformulation
  18. 11 - Toward Ethnographies of Institutional Discourse: Proposal and Suggestions
  19. PART IV: Qualitative Research as a Moral Discourse
  20. 12 - Ethnography and Justice
  21. 13 - One Branch of Moral Science: an Early Modern Approach to Public Policy
  22. Conclusion: the Moral Discourse of Interactionism
  23. References
  24. Subject Index
  25. Author Index