Designing Qualitative Research

by Marshall, Catherine; Rossman, Gretchen

• ISBN13: 9781412924894
• ISBN10: 1412924898
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-07
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc

Summary

The Fourth Edition of this best-selling text, Designing Qualitative Research , once again provides pragmatic guidance for developing and successfully defending proposals for qualitative inquiry. With expanded coverage of ethics, analysis processes, and approaches, authors Catherine Marshall and Gretchen B. Rossman, have updated this highly popular text to reflect the advances and challenges presented by provocative developments and new applications since the previous edition. New to the Fourth Edition: Offers a contemporary perspective: This new edition takes the current political climate into consideration and introduces readers to todaya??s research environment. This edition also includes discussions about distance-based research (such as email interviews and online discussion groups), the implications of postmodern turns, integrating archival material in qualitative research, and creative ways of presenting the research. Provides updated references: Updated material enables researchers to find resources that reflect emerging genres and choices guided by the most recent insights, controversies, examples, and research tools. This version of the book addresses recent thinking on "the researcher in the research setting." In addition, the end of each chapter features a post script that consists of a dialogue between a student and an advisor which illustrates design dilemmas in real time. Emphasizes a step-by-step approach: The text walks readers through the crafting of a research project from start to finish in a step-by-step fashion. Concrete models for the various parts of a proposal are provided to help readers create outlines, entry letters, consent letters, budgets, and timelines. A Intended Audience: Perfect for advanced undergraduate and graduate students taking their first or second Qualitative Research Methods or General Research Methods course, as well as for individual researchers across the social science disciplines; in addition it is a must-have resource for the library of those using qualitative approaches

Table of Contents

List of Tables	ix
List of Figures	xi
List of Vignettes	xiii
Preface to Fourth Edition	xv
Introduction	1	(22)
Qualitative Research Genres	3	(7)
The Challenges	10	(2)
``Should-Do-Ability''	11	(1)
``Do-Ability''	11	(1)
``Want-to-Do Ability''	11	(1)
Developing an Argument	12	(5)
Conceptual Framework	12	(1)
Design Soundness	13	(1)
Researcher Competence	13	(4)
Overview of the Book	17	(1)
Dialogue Between Learners	18	(2)
Further Reading	20	(3)
The What of the Study: Building the Conceptual Framework	23	(28)
Sections of the Proposal	25	(1)
Building the Conceptual Framework: Topic, Purpose, and Significance	26	(12)
Overview	26	(1)
The Topic	27	(6)
Purpose of the Study	33	(1)
Significance and Potential Contributions	33	(5)
Posing Research Questions	38	(4)
Limitations of the Study	42	(1)
Review of Related Literature	43	(5)
Dialogue Between Learners	48	(1)
Further Reading	49	(2)
The How of the Study: Building the Research Design	51	(46)
Meeting the Challenge	52	(1)
Justifying Qualitative Research	52	(2)
The Qualitative Genre and Overall Approach	54	(7)
Overall Strategies	55	(6)
The Setting, Site, Population, or Phenomenon	61	(3)
Selecting a Sample of People, Actions, Events, and/or Processes	64	(8)
The Researcher's Role: Issues of Entry, Reciprocity, Personal Biography, and Ethics	72	(20)
Technical Considerations	72	(6)
Interpersonal Considerations	78	(10)
Review Boards	88	(1)
Cultural Challenges to Informed Consent	89	(2)
Planning the Exit	91	(1)
Dialogue Between Learners	92	(1)
Further Reading	93	(4)
Data Collection Methods	97	(54)
Primary Methods	98	(15)
Observation	98	(2)
Participant Observation	100	(1)
In-Depth Interviewing	101	(6)
Background and Context and Review of Documents	107	(3)
Issues With Transcribing and Translating	110	(3)
Secondary and Specialized Methods	113	(23)
Focus Groups	114	(1)
Life Histories and Narrative Inquiry	115	(4)
Historical Analysis	119	(1)
Films, Videos, and Photography	120	(1)
Interaction Analysis	121	(3)
Unobtrusive Measures	124	(1)
Questionnaires and Surveys	125	(2)
Projective Techniques and Psychological Testing	127	(1)
Dilemma Analysis	128	(2)
Using Computer and Internet Technologies	130	(1)
Combining Data Collection Methods	131	(5)
General Principles for Designing Data Collection Strategies	136	(3)
Dialogue Between Learners	139	(2)
Further Reading	141	(10)
Managing, Analyzing, and Interpreting Data	151	(26)
Recording and Managing Data	151	(3)
Generic Data Analysis Strategies	154	(2)
Analytic Procedures	156	(16)
Organizing the Data	157	(1)
Immersion in the Data	158	(1)
Generating Categories and Themes	158	(2)
Coding the Data	160	(1)
Writing Analytic Memos	161	(1)
Offering Interpretations	161	(1)
Searching for Alternative Understandings	162	(1)
Writing the Report or Representing the Inquiry	162	(10)
Dialogue Between Learners	172	(2)
Further Reading	174	(3)
Planning Time and Resources	177	(22)
Planning Resources for a Large Study	178	(9)
Time	185	(1)
Personnel	186	(1)
Financial Resources	186	(1)
Planning Dissertation Research	187	(8)
Mentors and Peers	188	(1)
Time on a Small Scale	189	(1)
Financing	190	(5)
Dialogue Between Learners	195	(2)
Further Reading	197	(2)
Articulating Value and Logic	199	(20)
Criteria of Soundness	200	(8)
The Design and Methods Should Be Explicitly Detailed	205	(1)
Research Questions and the Data's Relevance Should Be Explicit and Rigorously Argued	206	(1)
The Study Should Be Situated in a Scholarly Context	207	(1)
Records Should Be Kept	207	(1)
Demonstrating the Essential Qualitativeness of the Questions	208	(1)
The Value of the Qualitative Approach	208	(6)
Demonstrating Precedents	214	(1)
A Final Word	215	(1)
Dialogue Between Learners	216	(3)
References	219	(26)
Index	245	(16)
About the Authors	261