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A guide to qualitative field research / Carol A. Bailey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Edition: Second editionDescription: xv, 214 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1412936500
  • 9781412936507
Other title:
  • Qualitative field research
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 300.723 22
LOC classification:
  • H62 .B275 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Introduction to qualitative field research -- 2. Ethical issues in qualitative field research -- 3. Prelude to qualitative fieldwork -- 4. The infrastructure of qualitative field research -- 5. Methodology -- 6. Observations -- 7. Interviews -- 8. Field notes and leaving the field -- 9. Coding, memoing, and descriptions -- 10. Typologies, taxonomies, visual representations, and themes -- 11. Storytelling, critical events, and analytic induction -- 12. Evaluation criteria and final manuscript.
Review: "Thoroughly revised, the Second Edition of A Guide to Qualitative Field Research provides novice researchers with comprehensive and accessible instructions for conducting qualitative field research. Using rich examples from classic ethnographies to help bring abstract principles alive, author Carol A. Bailey explains the entire research process, from selecting a topic to writing the final manuscript and all of the steps in between."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-202) and index.

1. Introduction to qualitative field research -- 2. Ethical issues in qualitative field research -- 3. Prelude to qualitative fieldwork -- 4. The infrastructure of qualitative field research -- 5. Methodology -- 6. Observations -- 7. Interviews -- 8. Field notes and leaving the field -- 9. Coding, memoing, and descriptions -- 10. Typologies, taxonomies, visual representations, and themes -- 11. Storytelling, critical events, and analytic induction -- 12. Evaluation criteria and final manuscript.

"Thoroughly revised, the Second Edition of A Guide to Qualitative Field Research provides novice researchers with comprehensive and accessible instructions for conducting qualitative field research. Using rich examples from classic ethnographies to help bring abstract principles alive, author Carol A. Bailey explains the entire research process, from selecting a topic to writing the final manuscript and all of the steps in between."--BOOK JACKET.

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