The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research Quality

Uwe Flick

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781529610512
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781529679137
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Research & Methodology
• Index: Social Sciences

This Sage Handbook presents an interdisciplinary collection of chapters exploring how to assess the quality of collecting and analysing qualitative data, while maintaining a focus on diversity, digital and critical approaches. The Handbook considers essential questions such as what is good qualitative research? What makes qualitative research good research? And, how can we make qualitative research better research?

Contributions come from a wide array of experts, and highlight answers to questions from various disciplinary and geographical areas; from mixed methods to multimodal and online research, from specific types of data and methods to specific target groups, and from theoretical and epistemological contexts to those where funding has an impact on how research is done and assessed.

Qualitative research has evolved in many respects in recent decades and has grown increasingly multidisciplinary. Research in general is facing new challenges around how to take diversity and decolonisation into account in what researchers do, as well as how to produce and communicate qualitative research quality. This Handbook offers a timely overview of such developments, and will support researchers involved in planning, designing, doing and evaluating qualitative research in developing an increased sensitivity for contemporary debates and challenges in the field.

Part I Philosophies and Epistemologies of Qualitative Research Quality

Part II Disciplinary Discourses of Qualitative Research Quality

Part III Qualitative Research Quality for Specific Approaches

Part IV Rethinking Qualitative Research Quality for Specific Methods and Data

Part V Rethinking Strategies for Quality in Qualitative Research

Part VI Rethinking Criteria for Quality in Qualitative Research

Part VII Extending Contexts and Challenges for Qualitative Research Quality

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• International Advisory Editorial Board
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Illustration List
• Notes on the Editors and Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Qualitative Research Quality: Locating the Crossroads
• Part I Philosophies and Epistemologies of Qualitative Research Quality
• 2 Thinking Ethically About Quality in Qualitative Feminist, Decolonial and Intersectional Research
• 3 The Importance of Diversity for Qualitative Research Quality
• 4 Qualitative Research Quality in Indigenous Research and Evaluation
• 5 The Transformative Paradigm and Cultural Responsiveness: A Dual Approach to Enhance Quality in Qualitative Research
• 6 Qualitative Research Quality in New Materialisms
• Part II Disciplinary Discourse of Qualitative Research Quality
• 7 Varied Accounts of Quality and Rigor in Qualitative Research in Political Science
• 8 The Politics of Quality, Rigour and Relevance in Qualitative Research in Psychology
• 9 Qualitative Research in the Online Settings: Learning from the Field of Education
• 10 Discourses of Qualitative Research Quality in Anthropology: Challenges of Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology
• 11 A Critical Dialogue About Quality in Qualitative Nursing Research
• Part III Qualitative Research Quality for Specific Approaches
• 12 Ensuring Quality: The Power and Potential of Naturally Occurring Data in the Social Sciences
• 13 Searching for Quality in Qualitative Pluralist Research
• 14 Qualitative Research Quality in Multimodal Research
• 15 For Qualitative Literacy: How to Assess the Effectiveness of Data Collection in Field Research
• 16 Qualities of Focus Groups Within Different Forms of Research Practices
• Part IV Rethinking Qualitative Research Quality for Specific Methods and Data
• 17 Qualitative Thematic Analysis Beyond Description
• 18 Research Quality in Participatory Visual Research
• 19 Qualitative Research Quality in Social Media Research
• 20 Embedding Quality in Qualitative Mixed Method Research
• 21 Quality in Big Qualitative Research
• Part V Rethinking Strategies for Quality in Qualitative Research
• 22 Reflexivity for Qualitative Research Quality and the Quality of Reflexivity
• 23 Reflexive Practice in Qualitative Research: Embracing Tension, Discomfort and Ambiguity
• 24 Analytic Induction and the Quality of Qualitative Research
• 25 Advancing Qualitative Research Quality with Member Check
• 26 Research Quality in and Through Qualitative Secondary Analysis
• 27 Generalizations in Qualitative Research
• Part VI Rethinking Criteria for Quality in Qualitative Research
• 28 Clarifying Criteria: Functions, Standards and IndicatorsClarifying Criteria: Functions, Standards and Indicators*
• 29 The Concepts and Practices of Validity in Qualitative Research
• 30 Trustworthiness in Qualitative Research: Reconsidering Replication
• 31 Setting Up the Tent Poles: Revisiting and Extending the Big-Tent Model for Qualitative Quality
• 32 A Critical Approach to Qualitative Research Guidelines: From Pragmatic Posture to Epistemological and Theoretical Reflection
• Part VII Extending Contexts and Challenges for Qualitative Research Quality
• 33 Funding: Constructing New, and Refracting Existing, Understandings of Quality in Qualitative Inquiry
• 34 Quality in Qualitative Research Across Cultural Communities
• 35 Qualitative Research Quality in South African Psychology
• 36 Qualitative Research Quality in Latin American Vulnerable and Precarious Contexts
• 37 Quality of Qualitative Research in the Asian Context
• 38 Indigenous Mixed Methods
• Index