Qualitative research /
edited by Alan Bryman & Robert G. Burgess.
- 4 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Fundamental Issues in Qualitative Research -- Philosophical Issues -- The Fundamental Concepts of Sociology / What Is Wrong with Social Theory? / Relationships Between Quantitative and Qualitative Research -- The Debate about Quantitative and Qualitative Research / Deconstructing the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide / Attitudes toward Needle 'sharing' among Injection Drug Users:Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods / Defining Qualitative Research -- Real Men Don't Collect Soft Data / Method Talk / Research Design -- Building Theories from Case Study Research / What Can Case Studies Do? / Case and Situation Analysis / The Research Process -- Library Access, Library Use and User Education in Academic Sixth Forms / An Autobiographical Account Scholarship and Sponsored Research / Contradiction, Continuum or Complementary Activity Hired Hand Research / Gaining Research Access -- The Study of Southern Labor Unions Organizing Campaigns / Playing Back the Tape:Early Days in the Field / Sampling -- Decision Taking in the Fieldwork Process / Theoretical Sampling and Collaborative Working Strategy for Getting Organized / Using Informants -- In the Company of Teachers / Key Informants and the Study of a Comprehensive School Key Informant Interviews / Max Weber -- Herbert Blumer -- Alan Bryman -- Martyn Hammersley -- Robert G Carlson et al -- Silvia Gherardi and Barry Turner -- Jaber F Gubrium and James A Holstein -- Kathleen M Eisenhardt -- Jennifer Platt -- J Clyde Mitchell -- Lawrence Stenhouse -- Robert G Burgess -- Julius A Roth -- Donald Roy -- John Van Maanen -- Janet Finch and Jennifer Mason -- Leonard Schatzman and Anselm L Strauss -- Robert G Burgess -- Valerie J Gilchrist -- Volume One. Part One. Part Two. Part Three. Part Four. Part Five. Part Six. Part Seven. Part Eight. Methods of Qualitative Research -- Participant Observation -- Observation(Paul Rock ) -- The Participant-Observer as a Human Being / Observations on the Personal Aspects of Field Work Problems of Inference and Proof in Participant Observation / Interviewing -- 'It's Great to Have Someone to Talk to' / The Ethics and Politics of Interviewing Women Experience and Knowledge / Interviewing / Focus Groups -- The Focused Interview and Focus Groups / Continuities and Discontinuities The Methodology of Focus Groups:The Importance of Interaction between Research Participants / Life History and Oral History -- On Auto /Biography in Sociology / Introduction to The Jack Roller / Movement without Aim / Methodological and Theoretical Problems in Oral History Is Oral History Auto /Biography? / Documentary Research -- Evidence and Proof in Documentary Research / Some Specific Problems of Documentary Research Evidence and Proof in Documentary Research / Some Shared Problems of Documentary Research Qualitative Media Analysis / Diaries -- Keeping a Research Diary / Public and Private Meanings in Diaries:Researching Family and Childcare / Photographs, Films and Video -- Finding a Silent Voice for the Researcher / Using Photographs in Evaluation and Research Film-Making and Ethnographic Research / Conversation and Discourse Analysis -- Discourse Analysis as a Way of Analyzing Naturally Occurring Talk / Analyzing Conversation / An Initial Investigation of the Usability of Conversational Data for Doing Sociology / Herbert J Gans -- Howard S Becker -- Janet Finch -- Marianne A Paget Active -- James A Holstein and Jaber F Gubrium -- Robert K Merton -- Jenny Kitzinger -- Liz Stanley -- Howard S Becker -- Ronald J Grele -- Joanna Bornat -- Jennifer Platt -- Jennifer Platt -- David L Altheide -- Robert G Burgess -- Linda Bell -- Rob Walker -- Paul Henley -- Jonathan Potter -- David Silverman -- Harvey Sacks -- Volume Two. Part One. Part icipant. Part Two. Part Three. Part Four. Part Five. Part Six. Part Seven. Part Eight. Analysis and Interpretation of Qualitative Data -- Fieldwork Notes and Transcripts -- Data Logging in Observation / Fieldnotes Transcription Quality as an Aspect of Rigor in Qualitative Research / First Days in the Field / Relationship Between Theory and Data in Qualitative Research -- What's Wrong with Ethnography? The Myth of Theoretical Description / Grounded Theory Methodology / An Overview Temporality and Identity Loss Due to Alzheimer's Disease / Analytic Strategies -- The Logical Sructure of Analytic Induction / Symbolic Interactionism / The Fusion of Theory and Research?Some Guidelines for the Phenomenological Analysis of Interview Data / Computers in Qualitative Data Analysis -- Qualitative Data Analysis / Technologies and Representations NUD*IST in Action:Its Use and Its Usefulness in a Study of Chronic Illness in Young People / Narrative Analysis -- Sociological and Sociolinguistic Models of Narrative / Sounds of Still Voices / Issues in the Use of Narrative Methods with People Who Have Learning Difficulties The Codes of the Dead / The Semiotics of Funeral Work Dreams, Visions and Commercial Spaces / Postmodernism Meets Ethnography -- On Ethnographic Authority / Evaluating Qualitative Research in the Poststructural Moment / The Lessons James Joyce Teaches Us The Challenges of Postmodernism / Writing -- Thick Description / Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture Appealing Work:An Investigation of How Ethnographic Texts Convince / Validation Issues -- Establishing Trustworthiness / On the Analysis of Observational Data:A Discussion of the Worth and Uses of Inductive Techniques and Respondent Validation / Qualitative Data and Archiving -- Qualitative Data Archiving / Some Reflections on Its Prospects and Problems Archiving Qualitative Research Data / John Lofland and Lyn H Lofland -- Blake D Poland -- Blanche Geer -- Martyn Hammersley -- Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin -- Celia J Orona -- W S Robinson -- Robin Williams -- Richard H Hycner -- Amanda Coffey, Beverley Holbrook and Paul Atkinson -- K Buston -- Martin Cortazzi -- Tim Booth -- Stephen R Barley -- Mark Gottdiener -- James Clifford -- Norman K Denzin -- Peter K Manning -- Clifford Geertz -- Karen Golden-Biddle and Karen Locke -- Yvonna S Lincoln and Egon Guba -- Michael Bloor -- Martyn Hammersley -- Louise Corti, Janet Foster and Paul Thompson -- Volume Three. Part One. Part Two. Part Three. Part Four. Part Five. Part Six. Part Seven. Part Eight. Part Nine. Issues in Qualitative Research -- Ethical Issues -- Ethical Problems in Social Research / The Case of Covert Participant Observation The Ethics of Deception in Social Research / A Case Study Whose Side Are We on? / Issues of Gender and Feminism -- Interviewing Women / A Contradiction in Terms Toward a Methodology for Feminist Research / Talking and Listening from Women's Standpoint:Feminist Strategies for Interviewing and Analysis / Cultural Difference -- Commonality, Difference and the Dynamics of Disclosure in In-Depth Interviewing / Studying across Difference:Race, Class and Gender in Qualitative Research / Qualitative Evaluation Research -- The Nature of Qualitative Enquiry / Ethnographic Contributions to Evaluation Research:The Experimental Schools Program Evaluation and Some Alternatives / Qualitative Research and Policy -- Developing Policy-Oriented Qualitative Research / Disparities in the Social Construction of Long-Term Care / Action Research -- Action Research:What Is It and What Can It Do? / An Action Research Approach to Workplace Health: Integrating Methods / Practitioner Research -- Doubts, Dilemmas and Diary-Keeping / Some Reflections on Teacher-Based Research Ethnography Addressing the Practitioner / Getting Out -- Leaving the Field - Stephen J Taylor Research, Relationships and Responsibilities Leaving the Newsroom / Dissemination -- The British Association Scandal / The Effect of Publicity on a Sociological Investigation The Sociologist as Celebrity: The Role of the Media in Field Research / Restudies -- Studying and Restudying Bishop McGregor School / Street Corner Society / Cornerville Revisited In Defense of Street Corner Society / Martin Bulmer -- Erich Goode -- Howard S Becker -- Ann Oakley -- Maria Mies -- Marjorie L De Vault -- Miri Song and David Parker -- Margaret L Anderson -- Michael Quinn Patton -- Michael S Knapp -- Janet Finch -- Rhoda Hurst Rojiani -- Alison Kelly -- Margrit K Hugentobler, Barbara A Israel and Susan J Schurman -- Gordon Griffiths -- Michael Bloor and Neil McKeganey -- David L Altheide -- D H J Morgan -- Peter Adler -- Robert G Burgess -- W A Marianne Boelen -- William Foote Whyte. Volume Four. Part One. Part Two. Part Three. Part Four. Part Five. Part Six. Part Seven. Part Eight. Part Nine. Part Ten.