Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences

by Berg, Bruce L.

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9780205264759

ISBN10:

0205264751

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Pub. Date:

8/1/1997

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Prentice Hall

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A main text for courses focusing specifically on qualitative research methods or a supplementary text for standard research methods courses. Chapters on seven different data collection strategies. Trying It Out exercises. Detailed description of focus group interviewing.

Preface

1 Introduction

(14)

Quantitative versus Qualitative Schools of Thought

(2)

Triangulation in Research

(2)

Qualitative Strategies: Defining an Orientation

(2)

From a Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

(2)

Why Use Qualitative Methods?

(1)

A Plan of Presentation

(2)

REFERENCES

(2)

2 Designing Qualitative Research

(16)

Ideas and Theory

(3)

Literature Review

(5)

The Two-Card Method

(3)

Framing Research Problems

(1)

Operationalization and Conceptualization

(3)

Designing Projects

(1)

Data Collection and Organization

(2)

Dissemination

(1)

TRYING IT OUT

(1)

REFERENCES

(1)

3 Ethical Issues

(26)

Research Ethics in Historical Perspective

(4)

From Guidelines to Law: Regulations on the Research Process

(1)

Institutional Review Boards

(7)

IRBs and Their Duties

(3)

Clarifying the Role of IRBs

(1)

Active versus Passive Consent

(2)

Membership Criteria for IRBs

(1)

Ethical Codes

(1)

Some Common Ethical Concerns in Behavioral Research

(2)

Physical and Ethical Dangers in Covert Research

(1)

Informed Consent and Implied Consent

(1)

Confidentiality and Anonymity

(2)

Keeping Identifying Records

(1)

Strategies for Safeguarding Confidentiality

(1)

Securing the Data

(1)

Objectivity and Careful Research Design

(3)

TRYING IT OUT

(1)

REFERENCES

(3)

4 A Dramaturgical Look at Interviewing

(43)

Dramaturgy and Interviewing

(1)

Types of Interviews

(4)

The Standardized Interview

(1)

The Unstandardized Interview

(1)

The Semistandardized Interview

(2)

The Interview Schedule

(1)

Schedule Development

(4)

Question Order, Content, and Style

(3)

Communicating Effectively

(1)

A Few Common Problems in Question Formulation

(1)

Affectively Worded Questions

(1)

The Double-Barreled Question

(1)

Complex Questions

(1)

Question Sequencing

(1)

Pretesting the Schedule

(1)

Long versus Short Interviews

(2)

Conducting an Interview: A Natural or an Unnatural Communication?

(1)

The Dramaturgical Interview

(8)

Interviewer Roles and Rapport

(4)

The Interviewer as a Self-Conscious Performer

(1)

Social Interpretations and the Interviewer

(2)

The Interviewer's Repertoire

(6)

Interviewer's Attitudes and Persuading a Subject

(1)

Developing an Interviewer Repertoire

(1)

The Ten Commandments of Interviewing

(1)

Know Your Audience

(2)

Curtain Calls

(1)

Analyzing Data Obtained from the Dramaturgical Interview

(4)

Beginning an Analysis

(1)

Systematic Filing Systems

(2)

Short-Answer Sheets

(1)

Analysis Procedures: A Concluding Remark

(1)

TRYING IT OUT

(1)

NOTES

(1)

REFERENCES

(4)

5 Focus Group Interviewing

100

(20)

What Are Focus Group Interviews?

100

(1)

The Evolution of Focus Group Interviews

101

(2)

Advantages and Disadvantages of Focus Group Interviewing

103

(6)

Focus Group Interviewing and Face-to-Face Interviewing

104

(2)

Focus Group Interviewing and Participant Observation

106

(1)

Focus Group Interviewing and Unobtrusive Measures

107

(2)

Facilitating Focus Group Dynamics: How Focus Groups Work

109

(5)

Confidentiality and Focus Group Interviews

114

(2)

Conclusion

116

(1)

TRYING IT OUT

116

(1)

NOTES

116

(1)

REFERENCES

117

(3)

6 Ethnographic Field Strategies

120

(40)

Accessing a Field Setting: Getting In

123

(10)

The Attitude of the Ethnographer

126

(1)

The Researcher's Voice

126

(4)

Gaining Entry

130

(3)

Becoming Invisible

133

(5)

Dangers of Invisibility

135

(2)

A New Problem in Data Protection: The Case of Mario Brajuha

137

(1)

Other Dangers during Ethnographic Research

138

(2)

Watching, Listening, and Learning

140

(13)

How to Learn: What to Watch and Listen For

142

(3)

Field Notes

145

(6)

Analyzing Ethnographic Data

151

(2)

Disengaging: Getting Out

153

(1)

TRYING IT OUT

154

(1)

NOTE

155

(1)

REFERENCES

156

(4)

7 Sociometry

160

(17)

What Is Sociometry?

160

(1)

The History and Purpose of Sociometric Strategies

161

(3)

How Sociometry Works

164

(1)

Positive Peer Nominations

164

(1)

Negative Peer Nominations

164

(1)

Peer Rating Procedures

164

(1)

Applications of Sociometric Techniques

165

(3)

The Sociogram

168

Mapping and the Creation of Sociograms

171

(2)

TRYING IT OUT

173

(1)

NOTE

173

(2)

REFERENCES

175

(2)

8 Unobtrusive Measures in Research

177

(21)

Archival Strategies

178

(13)

Public Archives

179

(9)

Private Archives: Solicited and Unsolicited Documents

188

(2)

A Last Remark about Archival Records

190

(1)

Physical Erosion and Accretion: Human Traces as Data Sources

191

(2)

Erosion Measures

191

(1)

Accretion Measures

192

(1)

Some Final Remarks about Physical Traces

193

(1)

TRYING IT OUT

193

(2)

REFERENCES

195

(3)

9 Historiography and Oral Traditions

198

(14)

What Is Historical Research?

198

(3)

Life Histories and Historiography

201

(1)

What Are the Data of Historical Researchers?

202

(1)

Doing Historiography: Tracing Written History as Data

203

(4)

External Criticism

205

(1)

Internal Criticism

206

(1)

What Are Oral Histories?

207

(3)

TRYING IT OUT

210

(1)

REFERENCES

210

(2)

10 Case Studies

212

(11)

The Nature of Case Studies

212

(1)

The Individual Case Study

213

(3)

The Use of Interview Data

213

(1)

The Use of Personal Documents

214

(2)

Intrinsic, Instrumental, and Collective Case Studies

216

(1)

The Scientific Benefit of Case Studies

217

(1)

Objectivity and the Case Studies

217

(1)

Generalizability

218

(1)

Case Studies of Organizations

218

(1)

Case Studies of Communities

219

(3)

Data Collection for Community Case Studies

220

(1)

Community Groups and Interests

220

(2)

TRYING IT OUT

222

(1)

REFERENCES

222

(1)

11 An Introduction to Content Analysis

223

(30)

Content Analysis as a Technique

223

(1)

Content Analysis: Quantitative or Qualitative?

224

(3)

Manifest versus Latent Content Analysis

225

(1)

Blending Manifest and Latent Content Analysis Strategies

226

(1)

Communication Components

227

(1)

What to Count: Levels and Units of Analysis

228

(1)

Sampling Strategies

228

(1)

Category Development: Building Grounded Theory

229

(7)

What to Count

231

(1)

Combinations of Elements

232

(1)

Units and Categories

233

(2)

Classes and Categories

235

(1)

Open Coding

236

(2)

Coding Frames

238

(5)

A Few More Words on Analytic Induction

240

(2)

Interrogative Hypothesis Testing

242

(1)

Strengths and Weaknesses of the Content Analysis Process

243

(2)

Computers and Qualitative Analysis

245

(4)

Word Processors

247

(1)

Text Retrievers

247

(1)

Textbase Managers

247

(1)

Code-and-Retrieve Programs

247

(1)

Code-Based Theory Builders

248

(1)

Conceptual Network Builders

248

(1)

TRYING IT OUT

249

(1)

REFERENCES

250

(3)

12 Writing Research Papers: Sorting the Noodles from the Soup

253

(20)

Identifying the Purpose of the Writing: Arranging the Noodles

253

(1)

Delineating a Supportive Structure: Visual Signals for the Reader

254

(9)

The Abstract

255

(1)

The Introduction

256

(1)

Literature Review

256

(2)

Methodology

258

(5)

Presenting Research Material

263

(3)

Disseminating the Research: Professional Meeting and Publications

263

(3)

A Word about the Content of Papers and Articles

266

(1)

Write It, Rewrite It, Then Write It Again!

267

(2)

A Final Note

269

(1)

NOTES

270

(1)

REFERENCES

270

(3)

Name Index

273

(7)

Subject Index

280

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