Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials

by Norman K. Denzin

• ISBN13: 9781412957571
• ISBN10: 1412957575
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-28
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Summary

Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials, Third Edition is the third volume of the paperback versions of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, Third Edition. This portion of the handbook considers the tasks of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting empirical materials, and comprises the Handbook's Parts IV ('œMethods of Collecting and Analyzing Empirical Materials') and V ('œThe Art and Practices of Interpretation, Evaluation, and Presentation'). Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials, Third Edition introduces the researcher to basic methods of gathering, analyzing and interpreting qualitative empirical materials. Part I moves from interviewing to observing, to the use of artifacts, documents and records from the past; to visual, and autoethnographic methods. It then takes up analysis methods, including computer-assisted methodologies, as well as strategies for analyzing talk and text.Key Feature of the Third Edition Contains a new Reader's Guide prepared by the editors that helps students and researchers navigate through the chapters, locating the different methodologies, methods, techniques, issues, and theories relevant to their work.'¢ Presents an abbreviated Glossary of terms that offer students and researchers a ready resource to help decode the language of qualitative research.'¢ Offers recommended Readings that provide readers with additional sources on specific topic areas linked to their research.Intended AudienceThis text is designed for graduate students taking classes in social research methods and qualitative methods as well as researchers throughout the social sciences and in some fields within the humanities.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction: The Discipline and Practice of Qualitative Research	p. 1
Methods of Collecting and Analyzing Empirical Materials	p. 45
Narrative Inquiry: Multiple Lenses, Approaches, Voices	p. 57
Arts-Based Inquiry: Performing Revolutionary Pedagogy	p. 95
The Interview: From Neutral Stance to Political Involvement	p. 115
Recontextualizing Observation: Ethnography, Pedagogy, and the Prospects for a Progresive Political Agenda	p. 161
What's New Visually?	p. 185
Autoethnography: Making the Personal Political	p. 205
The Methods, Politics, and Ethics of Representation in Online Ethnography	p. 247
Analytic Perspectives	p. 285
Foucault's Methodologies: Archeaology and Genealogy	p. 313
Analyzing Talk and Text	p. 351
Focus Groups: Strategic Articulations of Pedagogy, Politics, and Inquiry	p. 375
The Art and Practices of Interpretation, Evaluation, and Representation	p. 403
Relativism, Criteria, and Politics	p. 411
Emancipatory Discourses and the Ethics and Politics of Interpretation	p. 435
Writing: A Method of Inquiry	p. 473
Poetics for a Planet: Discourse on Some Problems of Being-in-Place	p. 501
Cultural Poesis: The Generativity of Emergent Things	p. 565
"Aria in Time of War": Investigative Poetry and the Politics of Witnessing	p. 587
Qualitative Evaluation and Changing Social Policy	p. 623
Reader's Guide	p. 641
Glossary	p. 643
Suggested Readings	p. 655
Author Index	p. 659
Subject Index	p. 673
About the Editors	p. 693
About the Contributors	p. 695
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