
Context and Method in Qualitative Research
- 240 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Context and Method in Qualitative Research
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Context and Method in Qualitative Research
- PART I: Validity and Credibility in Qualitative Research
- 1 - The Logics of Qualitative Research
- 2 - Producing ’Plausible Stories’: Interviewing Student Nurses
- 3 - Techniques of Validation in Qualitative Research: a Critical Commentary
- PART II: Methodological Issues in Qualitative Research
- 4 - Accounts, Interviews and Observations
- 5 - Problems with Interviewing: Experiences with Service Providers and Clients
- 6 - Contextualizing Texts: Studying Organizational Texts
- 7 - Using Computers in Strategic Qualitative Research
- 8 - Dramaturgy and Methodology
- PART III: Analysiing Institutions and Organizations
- 9 - Network Analysis and Qualitative Research: a Method of Contextualization
- 10 - The Interactional Study of Organizations:a Critique and Reformulation
- 11 - Toward Ethnographies of Institutional Discourse: Proposal and Suggestions
- PART IV: Qualitative Research as a Moral Discourse
- 12 - Ethnography and Justice
- 13 - One Branch of Moral Science: an Early Modern Approach to Public Policy
- Conclusion: the Moral Discourse of Interactionism
- References
- Subject Index
- Author Index