List of tables | p. ix |
Preface | p. x |
Acknowledgements | p. xiii |
An overview of the research process | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 3 |
The general background | p. 16 |
Posing the questions | p. 32 |
What is theory and what is its value? | p. 50 |
An example of a 'perspectives' study | p. 68 |
An example of a study on how participants 'deal with' a particular phenomenon | p. 85 |
Extending the range of interpretivist studies | p. 119 |
Policy studies and the interpretivist paradigm | p. 123 |
Life history studies | p. 137 |
Retrospective interactionist longtitudinal studies | p. 153 |
Interactionist historical studies | p. 169 |
The interpretivist paradigm and research based on 'problem-focused' ideas | p. 181 |
References | p. 199 |
Index | p. 217 |
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