The American tradition in qualitative research / edited by Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln.

Includes bibliographical references.

v. 1. History, ethics, politics, and paradigms of inquiry -- v.2 Strategies of inquiry -- v.3. Methods of collecting empirical matericals -- v. 4. Interpretative practices -- --

Volume One: -- Appendix of Sources -- Editors' Introduction -- Part One. History, Ethics, Politics and Paradigms of Inquiry -- Section One. History and Ethics -- Qualitative Methods: Their History in Sociology and Anthropology / Arthur J Vidich and Stanford M Lyman -- Action Anthropology / Sol Tax -- Whose Side Are We On? / Howard S Becker -- Black Bourgeoisie: Public and Academic Reactions / E Franklin Frazier -- Sociological Snoopers and Journalistic Moralizers: An Exchange / Nicholas von Hoffman -- Ethics: The Failure of Positivist Science / Yvonna S Lincoln and Egon G Guba -- Emerging Criteria for Quality in Qualitative and Interpretive Research / Yvonna S Lincoln -- Section Two. Positivism, Postpositivism and Constructivism -- Methodological Principles of Empirical Science / Herbert Blumer -- Situated Knowledges / Donna Haraway The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective -- Section Three. Feminism, Radicalized Discourse, Critical Theory -- Criteria of Negro Art / W E B Du Bois -- Research / Zora Neale Hurston -- A Blueprint for Negro Authors / Nick Aaron Ford -- An American Dilemma: A Review / Ralph Ellison -- The Homeland Aztlan and Movimientos de rebeldia y las culturas que traicionan / Gloria Anzaldua -- Toward An Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology / Patricia Hill Collins -- Saving Black Folk Culture: Bell Hooks / Zora Neale Hurston -- The Black Arts Movement / Larry Neal -- Coloring Epistemologies / James Joseph Scheurich and Michelle D Young -- Are Our Research Epistemologies Racially Biased?A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science,Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s / Donna Haraway -- Section Four. Poststructural and Postcolonial Theory -- Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture / Clifford Geertz -- Can the Subaltern Speak? / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- From Orientalism / Edward Said -- Section Five. Queer Theory -- Questions of Method / Michel Foucault -- Imitation and Gender Insubordination / Judith Butler -- Preface to The Use of Pleasure / Michel Foucault --

Volume Two: -- Part Two. Strategies of Inquiry -- Section One. Ethnography -- Revisiting Street Corner Society after Fifty Years / William Foote Whyte -- Blurred Genres: The Refiguration of Social Thought / Clifford Geertz -- Introduction: Out of Exile / Ruth Behar -- An End to Innocence: The Ethnography of Ethnography / John Van Maanen -- The 'Ethnographic Society' at Century's End: Clarifying the Role of Public Ethnography / Ken Plummer -- Fieldwork in the Era of Globalization / Arjun Appadurai -- The Ethnographers' Ball - Revisited / Patricia A Adler and Peter Adler -- Section Two. Performance Ethnography -- The Farmer's Daughter: A Performance Text / Michal McCall -- Beyond the Text: Toward a Performative Cultural Politics / Dwight Conquergood -- Performing Theory / /Embodied Writing / D Soyini Madison -- Section Three. Case Study -- Value of Delinquent Boy's Own Story / Clifford R Shaw -- The Case Study Method in Social Inquiry / Robert E Stake -- Critique Checklist for a Case Study Report / Robert E Stake -- Section Four. Life History -- Suggested Outline to Be Followed in Studying and Writing the Life History of a Deviant / Edwin M Lemert -- The Life Story Approach: A Continental View / Daniel Bertaux and Martin Kohli -- Life History and the Critique of American Sociological Practice / Paul C Luken and Suzanne Vaughan -- Section Five. Testimonio -- Testimonio and Postmodernism / George Yudice -- The Torture and Death of Her Little Brother, Burnt Alive in Front of Members of Their Families and the Community / Rigoberta Menchu -- The Death of Petrocinio / David Stoll -- Our Rigoberta? I, Rigoberta Menchu, Cultural Authority, and the Problem of Subaltern Agency / John Beverley -- Section Six. Grounded Theory -- The Discovery of Grounded Theory and Applying Grounded Theory / Barney G Glaser and Anselm L Strauss -- Grounded Theory / Kathy Charmaz -- Grounded Theory as an Emerging Paradigm for Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis / Markku Lonkila -- Section Seven. Interpretive Practice and Ethnomethodology -- Theorizing as Ideology / Dorothy Smith -- The Origins of the Term 'Ethnomethodology' / Harold Garfinkel -- Poststructuralist Theory as Political Necessity / Dorinne Kondo -- Analytic Ethnography: Features, Failings and Futures / John Lofland -- Poetics of Voice and Maps of Space: Two Trends within Empirical Research in Cultural Studies / Paula Saukko -- At the Border of Narrative and Ethnography / Jaber F Gubrium and James A Holstein -- Analyzing Talk and Text / David Silverman -- Section Eight. Action Research and Clinical Research -- Practical Anthropology / Bronislaw Malinowski -- Current Issues, Problems, and Trends to Advance Qualitative Paradigmatic Research Methods for the Future / Madeleine Leininger -- Part icipatory. Action Research: Through Practice to Science in Social Research / William Foote Whyte, Davydd J Greenwood and Pater Lazes -- Feminist Participatory Action Research: Methodological and Ethical Issues / Bev Gatenby and Maria Humphries --

Volume Three: -- Part Three. Methods of Collecting Empricial Materials -- Section One. Interview -- Of Sociology and the Interview / Mark Benney and Everett C Hughes -- Interviewing Women: A Contradiction in Terms / Ann Oakley -- Kundera's Immortality: The Interview Society and the Invention of the Self / Paul Atkinson and David Silverman -- The Active Interview in Perspective / James A Holstein and Jaber F Gubrium -- Section Two. Observations -- From Participant Observation to the Observation of Participation: The Emergence of Narrative Ethnography / Barbara Tedlock -- Rethinking Observation: From Method to Context / Michael V Angrosino and Kimberly Mays de Perez -- Section Three. Visual Methods -- Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson on The Use of the Camera in Anthropology / Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead -- The Performative Visual Anthropology Films of Zora Neale Hurston / Elaine S Charnov -- Shadow Catchers or Shadow Snatchers? Ethical Issues for Photographers of Contemporary Native Americans / Lee Philip Brumbaugh -- Section Four. Autoethnography -- Auto-Ethnography: Paradigms, Problems and Prospects / David M Hayano -- The Other Side of the Fence: Seeing Black and White in a Small Southern Town / Carolyn Ellis -- The Next Night Sous Rature / Carol Rambo Ronai Wrestling with Derrida's Mimesis -- Torch / Stacy Holman Jones -- Section Five. Document Analysis and Material Culture -- The Case for Personal Documents / Gordon W Allport -- Ethical Considerations in Anthropology and Archaeology: or Relativism and Justice for All / Merrilee H Salmon -- Dialogics of Material Culture: Male and Female in Murik Outrigger Canoes / Kathleen Barlow and David Lipset -- Part Six. Narrative Methods -- The Challenge of Qualitative Content Analysis / Sigfried Kracauer -- Myth Today / Roland Barthes -- Encoding, Decoding / Stuart Hall -- Grandma's Story / Trinh T Minh-ha -- Section Seven. Representing and Analyzing Empirical Materials -- The Quest for Universals in Sociological Research / Ralph H Turner -- Telling about Society / Howard S Becker -- Writing-Stories: Co-Authoring 'The Sea Monster,' a Writing-Story / Laurel Richardson -- Section Eight. Focus Goups -- Purpose and Criteria / Robert K Merton, Marjorie Fiske and Patricia L Kendall -- Focus Groups / Richard A Krueger -- Focus Groups in Feminist Research / Esther Madriz -- Section Nine. Applied Ethnography -- Anti-Minotaur: The Myth of a Value-Free Sociology / Alvin W Gouldner -- Applying Ethnography / Eleanor Lyon -- A Crisis of Representation in the Human Sciences / George E Marcus and Michael M J Fischer --

Volume Four: -- Part Four. Interpretive Practices -- Section One. Interpretive Criteria -- Ethnographic Evaluation: A Theory and Method / Donald W Dorr-Bremme -- Section Two. Politics and Practices of Interpretation -- Fertile Obsession: Validity after Poststructuralism / Patti Lather -- Telling Tales of the South Pacific / Lola Romanucci-Ross -- Multiple Subjectivities and Strategic Positionality / Graciela Hernandez -- Zora Neale Hurston's Experimental Ethnographies -- Section Three. Writing: A Method of Inquiry.

"The four volumes cover six central themes in American Qualitative Research: (1) History, Ethics, Politics; (2) Paradigms (positivism, postpositivism, interpretive theory, queer theory, Marxism, Feminism, cultural studies, standpoint theory; (3) Strategies of Inquiry (Ethnography, Case Study, Life Story, Historical Method, Grounded Theory, Action Research, Ethnomethodology); (4) Methods of Collecting Empirical Materials (Interview, Observation, Document Analysis, Visual Culture, Narrative Content, Semiotic Methods); (5) Interpretive Practices (Causal Modules, Interpretive Validity, Politics of Interpretation, Art of Writing; (6) The Future."--Publisher description.

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