| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 225 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Impact of context on data / Judith Green and Laura Hart -- Combining focus groups and interviews : telling how it is; telling how it feels / Lynn Michell -- Are focus groups suitable for sensitive topics? / Clare Farquhar with Rita Das -- How useful are focus groups in feminist research? / Sue Wilkinson -- Do focus groups facilitate meaningful participation in social research? / Rachel Baker and Rachel Hinton -- How useful are focus groups for obtaining the views of minority groups? / Lai-Fong Chiu and Deborah Knight -- Are focus groups an appropriate tool for studying organizational change? / Rosaline S. Barbour -- Can focus groups access community views? / Claire Waterton and Brian Wynne -- Some issues arising in the systematic analysis of focus group materials / Jane Frankland and Michael Bloor -- Analytical potential of sensitive moments in focus group discussions / Jenny Kitzinger and Clare Farquhar -- Can focus groups be analysed as talk? / Greg Myers and Phil Macnaghten -- Theorizing subjects and subject matter in focus group research / Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Anne Kerr and Stephen Pavis |
| Summary |
Developing Focus Group Research critically examines the potential of a versatile and powerful method of research - focus groups |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-217) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Focus groups.
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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 |
Barbour, Rosaline S.
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Kitzinger, Jenny.
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| ISBN |
1446205266 (electronic bk.) |
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1849208859 (ebook) |
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9781446205266 (electronic bk.) |
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9781849208857 (ebook) |
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