SAGE Qualitative Research Methods

Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9781849203784
• eBook ISBN: 9781446275702
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Research & Methodology
• Index: Social Sciences

SAGE has been a major force shaping the field of qualitative methods, not just in its specialist methods journals like Qualitative Inquiry but in the ?empirical? journals such as Social Studies of Science. Delving into SAGE?s deep backlist of qualitative research methods journals, Paul Atkinson and Sara Delmont, editors of Qualitative Research, have selected over 70 articles to represent SAGE?s distinctive contribution to methods publishing in general and qualitative research in particular. This collection includes research from the past four decades and addresses key issues or controversies, such as: explanations and defences of qualitative methods; ethics; research questions and foreshadowed problems; access; first days in the field; field roles and rapport; practicalities of data collection and recording; data analysis; writing and (re) presentation; the rise of auto-ethnography; life history, narrative and autobiography; CA and DA; and alternatives to the logocentric (such as visual methods).

Table of contents

• Cover
• Volume 1
• Contents
• Appendix of Sources
• Editors’ Introduction
• 1 - A Stranger at the Gate: Reflections on the Chicago School of Sociology
• 2 - The Past and the Future of Ethnography
• 3 - Ethnography: Post, Past, and Present
• 4 - The Interactional Study of Organizations: A Critique and Reformulation
• 5 - Comparative Methods in Social Science
• 6 - Towards a Peopled Ethnography: Developing Theory from Group Life
• 7 - Beyond Groups: Seven Pillars of Peopled Ethnography in Organizations and Communities
• 8 - Participant Observation in the Era of “Ethnography”
• 9 - On Fieldwork
• 10 - Erving Goffman’s Sociological Legacies
• 11 - Field Reality: Orientations
• 12 - Accessing, Waiting, Plunging in, Wondering, and Writing: Retrospective Sense-Making of Fieldwork
• 13 - Exchange and Access in Field Work
• 14 - From How to Why: On Luminous Description and Causal Inference in Ethnography (Part 1)
• 15 - From How to Why: On Luminous Description and Causal Inference in Ethnography (Part 2)
• 16 - Reminiscences of Classic Chicago: The Blumer-Hughes Talk
• 17 - Toward a Critical Ethnography: A Reexamination of the Chicago Legacy
• 18 - Everett C. Hughes and the Development of Fieldwork in Sociology
• 19 - A Meta-Ethnographic Approach and The Freeman Refutation of Mead
• Volume II
• Contents
• 20 - Stability and Flexibility: Maintaining Relations within Organized and Unorganized Groups
• 21 - Ethnographic Evidence
• 22 - The Hired Hand and the Lone Wolf:Issues in the Use of Observers in Large-Scale Program Evaluation
• 23 - Four Ways to Improve the Craft of Fieldwork
• 24 - “Déjà Entendu”: The Liminal Qualities of Anthropological Fieldnotes
• 25 - Images of Recovery: A Photo-Elicitation Study on the Hospital Ward
• 26 - Educational Ethnography as Performance Art: Towards a Sensuous Feeling and Knowing
• 27 - Discipline and the Material Form of Images: An Analysis of Scientific Visibility
• 28 - Understanding Urban Life:The Chicago Legacy
• 29 - Street Phenomenology: The Go-Along as Ethnographic Research Tool
• 30 - “Just Another Native?” Soundscapes,Chorasters, and Borderlands in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• 31 - Doing Research in Cyberspace
• 32 - How I Learned What a Crock Was
• 33 - Ten Lies of Ethnography: Moral Dilemmas of Field Research
• 34 - Problems in the Field: Participant Observation and the Assumption of Neutrality
• 35 - Collecting Data from Elites and Ultra Elites: Telephone and Face-to-Face Interviews with Macroeconomists
• 36 - The Ubiquity of Ambiguity in Research Interviewing: An Exemplar
• 37 - Referencing as Persuasion
• 38 - Contradictions of Feminist Methodology
• 39 - Jurors’ Use of Judges’ Instructions: Conceptual and Methodological Issues for Simulated Jury Studies
• Volume III
• Contents
• 40 - Notes on the Nature and Development of General Theories
• 41 - Grounded Theory Method: Philosophical Perspectives, Paradigm of Inquiry, and Postmodernism
• 42 - Analytic Ordering for Theoretical Purposes
• 43 - Rediscovering Glaser
• 44 - Grounded Theory: Evolving Methods
• 45 - Premises, Principles, and Practices in Qualitative Research: Revisiting the Foundations
• 46 - Two Cases of Ethnography: Grounded Theory and the Extended Case Method
• 47 - Five Misunderstandings about Case-Study Research
• 48 - The Personal Is Political
• 49 - Qualitative Data Analysis: Technologies and Representations
• 50 - Qualitative Data Analysis: Representations of a Technology – A Comment on Coffey, Holbrook and Atkinson
• 51 - The Art(Fulness) of Open-Ended Interviewing: Some Considerations on Analysing Interviews
• 52 - Doing Narrative Analysis
• 53 - Narrative Turn or Blind Alley?
• 54 - Narrative in Social Work: A Critical Review
• 55 - Writing an Intellectual History of Scientific Development: The Use of Discovery Accounts
• 56 - Beyond the “Fetishism of Words”: Considerations on the Use of the Interview to Gather Chronic Illness Narratives
• 57 - ‘When Discourse Is Torn from Reality’: Bakhtin and the Principle of Chronotopicity
• 58 - Having, and Being Had by,“Experience”: Or, “Experience” in the Social Sciences after the Discursive/ Poststructuralist Turn
• 59 - Immersion vs. Analytic Ideals and Appendix
• 60 - (No) Trial (but) Tribulations: When Courts and Ethnography Conflict
• Volume IV
• Contents
• 61 - Which Side Was Becker On?Questioning Political and Epistemological Radicalism
• 62 - Handing IRB an Unloaded Gun
• 63 - Ethics and the Practice of Qualitative Research
• 64 - ‘Becoming Participant’: Problematizing ‘Informed Consent’ in Participatory Research with Young People in Care
• 65 - Researching Researchers: Lessons for Research Ethics
• 66 - Reembodying Qualitative Inquiry
• 67 - Gender, Disembodiment and Vocation: Exploring the Unmentionables of British Academic Life
• 68 - Ethnographying Public Memory: The Commemorative Genre for the Victims of Terrorism in Italy
• 69 - Unsettling Engagements: On the Ends of Rapport in Critical Ethnography
• 70 - Data Presentation and the Audience: Responses, Ethics, and Effects
• 71 - Can We Re-Use Qualitative Data Via Secondary Analysis? Notes on Some Terminological and Substantive Issues
• 72 - (Re)Using Qualitative Data?
• 73 - Whose Cornerville Is It, Anyway?
• 74 - Trash on the Corner: Ethics and Technography
• 75 - The Gold Coast and the Slum Revisited: Paradoxes in Replication Research and the Study of Social Change
• 76 - Sociological Theory: Methods of Writing Patriarchy
• 77 - Analytic Autoethnography
• 78 - Comments on Setting Criteria for Experimental Writing
• 79 - Knowing Your Place: Gender and Reflexivity in Two Ethnographies
• 80 - Storying Schools: Issues around Attempts to Create a Sense of Feel and Place in Narrative Research Writing
• 81 - Feminist Ethnography: Storytelling that Makes a Difference
• 82 - Quality Issues in Qualitative Inquiry
• 83 - Emerging Criteria for Quality in Qualitative and Interpretive Research
• 84 - New Methods, Old Problems: A Sceptical View of Innovation in Qualitative Research