Handbook of qualitative research / Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- 1. Introduction: Entering the Field of Qualitative Research -- Pt. I. Locating the Field -- 2. Qualitative Methods: Their History in Sociology and Anthropology -- 3. Traditions, Preferences, and Postures in Applied Qualitative Research -- 4. Working the Hyphens: Reinventing Self and Other in Qualitative Research -- 5. Politics and Ethics in Qualitative Research -- Pt. II. Major Paradigms and Perspectives -- 6. Competing Paradigms in Qualitative Research -- 7. Constructivist, Interpretivist Approaches to Human Inquiry -- 8. Rethinking Critical Theory and Qualitative Research -- 9. Feminisms and Models of Qualitative Research -- 10. Ethnic Modeling in Qualitative Research -- 11. Audiencing: Cultural Practice and Cultural Studies -- Pt. III. Strategies of Inquiry -- 12. The Dance of Qualitative Research Design: Metaphor, Methodolatry, and Meaning -- 13. Designing Funded Qualitative Research -- 14. Case Studies -- 15. Ethnography and Participant Observation -- 16. Phenomenology, Ethnomethodology, and Interpretive Practice -- 17. Grounded Theory Methodology: An Overview -- 18. Biographical Method -- 19. Historical Social Science: Methodologies, Methods, and Meanings -- 20. Three Approaches to Participative Inquiry -- 21. Clinical Research -- Pt. IV. Methods of Collecting and Analyzing Empirical Materials -- 22. Interviewing: The Art of Science -- 23. Observational Techniques -- 24. The Interpretation of Documents and Material Culture -- 25. On the Authority of the Image: Visual Methods at the Crossroads -- 26. Personal Experience Methods -- 27. Data Management and Analysis Methods -- 28. Using Computers in Qualitative Research -- 29. Narrative, Content, and Semiotic Analysis -- Pt. V. The Art of Interpretation, Evaluation, and Presentation -- 30. Criteria for Assessing Interpretive Validity in Qualitative Research -- 31. The Art of Politics of Interpretation -- 32. Writing: A Method of Inquiry -- 33. Qualitative Program Evaluation: Practice and Promise -- 34. Influencing the Policy Process With Qualitative Research -- Pt. VI. The Future of Qualitative Research -- 35. What Comes (Just) After "Post"? The Case of Ethnography -- 36. The Fifth Moment -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- About the Authors.

"In discipline after discipline, old models, methods, and theories of research have been supplanted or supplemented by new paradigms, strategies, and techniques based on a naturalistic study of people in their social and cultural environment. The Handbook of Qualitative Research is the first attempt to synthesize this vast world of activity. The handbook moves from the theoretical to the specific, examining the various paradigms for doing qualitative work, the strategies developed for studying people in their natural setting, and a variety of techniques for collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and reporting findings." "Contributors to this authoritative volume represent disciplines as diverse as sociology and education, medicine and communication, anthropology and policy studies, and come from three continents."--BOOK JACKET.

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