1. Introducing Qualitative Research / David Silverman -- 2. Ethnography: Relating the Part to the Whole / Isabelle Baszanger and Nicolas Dodier -- 3. Building Bridges: The Possibility of Analytic Dialogue Between Ethnography, Conversation Analysis and Foucault / Gale Miller -- 4. Analysing Documentary Realities / Paul Atkinson and Amanda Coffey -- 5. Following Foucault's Footsteps: Text and Context in Qualitative Research / Lindsay Prior -- 6. Ethnomethodology and Textual Analysis / Rod Watson -- 7. The 'Inside' and the 'Outside': Finding Realities in Interviews / Jody Miller and Barry Glassner -- 8. Active Interviewing / James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium -- 9. Membership Categorization and Interview Accounts / Carolyn Baker -- 10. Discourse Analysis as a Way of Analysing Naturally Occurring Talk / Jonathan Potter -- 11. Conversation Analysis and Institutional Talk: Analysing Data / John Heritage
12. The Analysis of Activities in Face to Face Interaction Using Video / Christian Heath -- 13. Reliability and Validity in Research Based on Transcripts / Anssi Perakyla -- 14. Addressing Social Problems through Qualitative Research / Michael Bloor -- 15. Towards an Aesthetics of Research / David Silverman