| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 534 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; About the Editors and Contributors; Preface; Introduction: Inside Qualitative Research; Part I: Encountering Method; Chapter 1 -- Interviews; Chapter 2 -- Oral history; Chapter 3 -- Biographical research; Chapter 4 -- Focus groups; Chapter 5 -- Grounded theory; Part II -- Analytic Frameworks; Chapter 6 -- Narrative research; Chapter 7 -- Feminist approaches; Chapter 8 -- The Foucaultian framework; Chapter 9 -- Ethnomethodology; Chapter 10 -- Conversation analysis; Chapter 11 -- Discourse analytic practice; Chapter 12 -- Critical discourse analysis; Part III: Field Relations |
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Chapter 13 -- Ethnography and participant observationChapter 14 -- Ethical issues; Chapter 15 -- Working in hostile environments; Chapter 16 -- Politics, research and understanding; Part IV: Context and Method; Chapter 17 -- Context: working it up, down, and across; Chapter 18 -- Working qualitatively and quantitatively; Chapter 19 -- Secondary analysis of archived data; Chapter 20 -- Renanalysis of previously collected material; Chapter 21 -- The Internet as research context; Chapter 22 -- Documents; Chapter 23 -- Visual methods; Part V: Quality and Credibility |
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Chapter 24 -- Quality in qualitative researchChapter 25 -- Five misunderstandings about case-study research; Chapter 26 -- Sampling, representativeness and generalizability; Chapter 27 -- Working with 'key incidents'; Chapter 28 -- Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis; Part VI: Audiences, Applications and the International Context; Chapter 29 -- Qualitative evaluation research; Chapter 30 -- Action research; Chapter 31 -- Publishing qualitative manuscripts: lessons learned; Chapter 32 -- The globalization of qualitative research; Index |
| Summary |
Nurse Researcher ̀This comprehensive collection of almost 40 chapters - each written by a leading expert in the field - is the essential reference for anyone undertaking or studying qualitative research. It covers a diversity of methods and a variety of perspectives and is a very practical and informative guide for newcomers and experienced researchers alike' - John Scott |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
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Qualitative research.
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Social sciences -- Research.
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Social sciences -- Methodology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Methodology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Research.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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Qualitative research
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Social sciences -- Methodology
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Social sciences -- Research
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Seale, Clive, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781446204580 |
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1446204588 |
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9781446275733 |
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1446275736 |
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9781473903487 |
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1473903483 |
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