Essentials of Qualitative Inquiry

by Mayan,Maria J

• ISBN13: 9781598741070
• ISBN10: 1598741071
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-12-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This brief, inexpensive guide introduces students and novices to the key elements of qualitative research methods. Written in a friendly, conversational style, replete with good examples from multiple disciplines, student exercises, and key points to remember, the volume works ideally with other qualitative textbooks to provide a comprehensive overview to qualitative methods for students. Chapters cover the essentials of theory building, research design, methods, data collection and analysis, writing, ethics, rigor and proposal writing.

Author Biography

Maria J. Mayan is a qualitative methodologist and has studied, written about, and conducted qualitative research since the early 1990s. She spent over 10 years at the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology learning and teaching qualitative inquiry locally and internationally. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Extension and Assistant Director of Women's and Children's Health, Community University Partnership for the Study of Children, Youth and Families, University of Alberta. She has been invited to teach by government, not-for-profits, the private sector, and the academic community world-wide. Her research program is primarily community-based, focusing on partnerships and health policy.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
Acknowledgments	p. 8
Introduction to Qualitative Inquiry	p. 9
What Is Qualitative Inquiry?	p. 11
Methodological Coherence and the Armchair Walkthrough	p. 13
Qualitative Annoyances	p. 18
Summary	p. 20
Finding the Story behind the Numbers	p. 21
Theory and Method	p. 22
Ontology, Epistemology, and Theoretical Position/Perspective	p. 23
Methodology and Method	p. 29
Relationship between Theoretical Position/Perspective and Method	p. 31
Summary	p. 33
Sorting It Out	p. 33
Method	p. 34
Choosing a Method	p. 35
The Methods	p. 36
Summary	p. 56
Many Methods and the Armchair Walkthrough	p. 56
Research Question and Sampling	p. 57
The Research Question	p. 57
Sampling	p. 61
Saturation	p. 63
Summary	p. 65
An Environmental Scan	p. 65
Data Collection	p. 66
Data Collection Strategies	p. 67
Summary	p. 83
Observation and Field Notes	p. 84
Data Analysis	p. 85
Inquiry as Deductive, Inductive, and Abductive	p. 86
Terms and Processes of Data Analysis	p. 88
Summary	p. 98
Categorizing and Theming	p. 99
Rigor	p. 100
The Rigor Game	p. 100
Talking, Doing, and Writing about Rigor	p. 101
Being Rigorous	p. 107
Summary	p. 112
Examining Criteria/Standards	p. 113
Proposal Writing	p. 114
Before Writing: Proposals and Politics	p. 115
Writing	p. 117
Coordinating the Submission	p. 122
Summary	p. 123
Proposal Sawy	p. 124
Ethics Boards, Risk, and Qualitative Research	p. 125
Ethics: Beyond "Getting through Ethics"	p. 125
Summary	p. 130
Ethics without REBs/IRBs	p. 131
Representation, Writing, and Reflexivity	p. 132
Representation	p. 132
Writing	p. 134
Reflexivity	p. 135
Summary	p. 138
Uncle Ben's Last Words	p. 139
	p. 140
	p. 143
	p. 147
Notes	p. 151
References	p. 152
Index	p. 166
About the Author	p. 172
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