Handbook of Emergent Methods

by Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy; Leavy, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9781593851477
• ISBN10: 1593851472
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-22
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

Social researchers increasingly find themselves looking beyond conventional methods to address complex research questions. The Handbook of Emergent Methods is the first book to comprehensively examine emergent qualitative and quantitative theories and methods across the social and behavioral sciences. Providing scholars and students with a way to retool their research choices, the volume presents cutting-edge approaches to data collection, analysis, and representation. Leading researchers describe alternative uses of traditional quantitative and qualitative tools; innovative hybrid or mixed methods; and new techniques facilitated by technological advances. Consistently formatted chapters explore the strengths and limitations of each method for studying different types of research questions and offer practical, in-depth examples.

Author Biography

Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, PhD, is Professor of Sociology and director of Women’s Studies at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She has published widely on the impact of sociocultural factors on women’s body image, including the book Am I Thin Enough Yet?: The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity, which was selected as one of Choice magazine’s best academic books for 1996, and The Cult of Thinness. Dr. Hesse-Biber is coauthor of Working Women in America: Split Dreams and The Practice of Qualitative Research; coeditor of Feminist Approaches to Theory and Methodology: An Interdisciplinary Reader, Approaches to Qualitative Research: A Reader on Theory and Practice, and Emergent Methods in Social Research; and editor of the Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis, which was selected as one of the Critics Choice Award winners by the American Educational Studies Association and one of Choice magazine’s outstanding academic titles for 2007. She is also a contributor to the Handbook of Grounded Theory and author of the upcoming Mixed Methods for Social Researchers. Dr. Hesse-Biber is codeveloper of the software program HyperRESEARCH, a computer-assisted program for analyzing qualitative data, and the new transcription tool HyperTRANSCRIBE.

 

Patricia Leavy, PhD, is Associate Professor of Sociology at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts, where she is also the founder and director of the Gender Studies Program and currently serves as chair of the Sociology and Criminology Department. She is the author of Iconic Events: Media, Politics, and Power in Retelling History and the forthcoming Method Meets Art: Social Research and the Creative Arts; coauthor of The Practice of Qualitative Research  and Feminist Research Practice: A Primer; and coeditor of Approaches to Qualitative Research: A Reader on Theory and Practice and Emergent Methods in Social Research. Dr. Leavy has published articles in the areas of collective memory, mass media, popular culture, body image, feminism, and qualitative research methods, and she is regularly quoted in newspapers for her expertise on popular culture, current events, and gender.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Pushing on the Methodological Boundaries: The Growing Need for Emergent Methods within and across the Disciplines	p. 1
Historical Context of Emergent Methods and Innovation in the Practice of Research Methods	p. 17
History
History of Methods in Social Science Research	p. 25
Gender Inclusion, Contextual Values, and Strong Objectivity: Emergent Feminist Methods for Research in the Sciences	p. 53
A Post-Newtonian, Postmodern Approach to Science: New Methods in Social Action Research	p. 73
Emergence in and from Quasi-Experimental Design and Analysis	p. 87
Document Research
Researching Documents: Emergent Methods	p. 111
Emergent Qualitative Document Analysis	p. 127
Grounded Theory
Grounded Theory as an Emergent Method	p. 155
Interviewing
New Frontiers in Standardized Survey Interviewing	p. 173
Emergent Approaches to Focus Group Research	p. 189
Emergent Issues in International Focus Group Discussions	p. 207
Three Dimensions and More: Oral History Beyond the Paradoxes of Method	p. 221
Ethnography
Narrative Ethnography	p. 241
Public Ethnography	p. 265
Emergent Methods in Autoethnographic Research: Autoethnographic Narrative and the Multiethnographic Turn	p. 283
New Critical Collaborative Ethnography	p. 303
Arts-Based Practice
Visual Research Methods: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?	p. 325
Performance-Based Emergent Methods	p. 343
Innovation in Research Methods Design and Analysis	p. 359
Mixing Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches: An Introduction to Emergent Mixed Methods Research	p. 363
Emergent Techniques in the Gathering and Analysis of Mixed Methods Data	p. 389
Data Analysis and Interpretation: Emergent Issues in Linking Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence	p. 415
Longitudinal Research: An Emergent Method in the Social Sciences	p. 437
Categorizing and Connecting Strategies in Qualitative Data Analysis	p. 461
Metaphor Analysis	p. 479
Hearing Voices: Listening for Multiplicity and Movement in Interview Data	p. 495
The Impact of Emergent Technologies on Research Methods	p. 517
Internet Research as Emergent Practice	p. 525
Internet-Mediated Research as an Emergent Method and Its Potential Role in Facilitating Mixed Methods Research	p. 543
Hypermedia Methods for Qualitative Research	p. 571
Mixed Emotions, Mixed Methods: The Role of Emergent Technologies in Studying User Experience in Context	p. 601
Emergent Methods in Feminist Geography	p. 613
Neural Networks as an Emergent Method in Quantitative Research: An Example of Self-Organizing Maps	p. 625
User-Centered Perspectives on Qualitative Data Analysis Software: Emergent Technologies and Future Trends	p. 655
The Role of Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis: Impact on Emergent Methods in Qualitative Research	p. 675
Author Index	p. 697
Subject Index	p. 715
About the Editors	p. 731
Contributors	p. 732
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