Designing Qualitative Research

Catherine Marshall, Gretchen B. Rossman, Gerardo L. Blanco

• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781071817384
• Edition: 0
• Subtopic: Social Science Research & Methodology

Offering clear, easy-to-understand guidance on designing qualitative research, this fully updated Seventh Edition of Marshall and Rossman's bestselling text retains the useful examples, tools, and vignettes that makes it such an outstanding resource. The book takes students from selecting a research genre through building a conceptual framework, data collection and interpretation, and arguing the merits of the proposal. Now featuring a new co-author, Gerardo L. Blanco, this edition includes more on the history and new emerging genres of qualitative inquiry, as well as a more sustained and deeper focus on social media and other digital applications in conducting qualitative research. New application activities provide opportunities for students to try out ideas, while timely vignettes illustrate the methodological challenges posed by the intellectual, ethical, political, and technological advances affecting society. PowerPoints to accompany this text are available on an instructor site.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Brief Contents
• Detailed Contents
• Table List
• Illustration List
• Sidebar List
• Sidebar List
• Preface to the Seventh Edition
• About the Authors
• Publisher Note
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Qualitative Research Genres
• 3 Credibility, Trustworthiness, and Ethics
• 4 The What of the Study Building the Conceptual Framework
• 5 The How of the Study Building the Research Design
• 6 Basic Data Collection Methods
• 7 Specialized and Focused Data Collection Methods
• 8 Managing, Analyzing, and Interpreting Data
• 9 Arguing the Merits of Your Proposal and Moving Forward
• References
• Index