Doing Qualitative Research: Circles Within Circles

by Anzul,Margaret

• ISBN13: 9781850008149
• ISBN10: 1850008140
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135386627
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1991-04-01
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

This is designed for those learning qualitative research and those more advanced in the field. It focuses on understanding both the cognitive processes of qualitative research and the affective "feel" engendered.

Table of Contents

Grounding	1	(9)
Starting	9	(32)
Introducing Margot and This Chapter	9	(1)
The Beginning	10	(3)
Snapshot	10	(1)
The Plunge	11	(2)
Expectations	13	(2)
Entering the Field as an Ongoing Proposition	15	(14)
Too Close to Home	25	(4)
What Was That Question Again?	29	(3)
Letting Go: Trusting the Process	32	(3)
The Support Group: The Tie That Binds	35	(2)
Postscript	37	(4)
Doing	41	(66)
Introducing Ann and This Chapter	41	(1)
Participant Observation	42	(15)
Choosing a Participant Observer Role	44	(4)
Beginning Observation with Wide Focus	48	(1)
Becoming `The Other'	49	(1)
Prolonged Engagement	50	(3)
Concern for Objectivity	53	(1)
What Was That Question Again? Again	54	(3)
Interviewing	57	(12)
Beginning Challenges	59	(1)
Staying Out---Staying In	60	(3)
About Questioning	63	(6)
Logs	69	(13)
Beginning the Log	71	(2)
Log Format and Content	73	(7)
Analytic Memos	80	(2)
Audiotaping and Videotaping	82	(4)
Ongoing Data Analysis	86	(4)
Computers as Aids in Analysis	90	(1)
Leaving the Field	91	(2)
Keeping the Door Open	92	(1)
Establishing Trustworthiness	93	(6)
The Shock of Recognition	94	(1)
In the Act: Working toward Credibility	95	(4)
Support Group: The Life Line	99	(3)
Postscript	102	(5)
Coda	104	(3)
Feeling	107	(32)
Introducing Teri and This Chapter	107	(2)
Facing the Fears	109	(3)
Emotional Connections	112	(9)
Too Close for Comfort	113	(6)
Too Far for Comfort	119	(2)
Self-Awareness	121	(3)
Making the Familiar Unfamiliar	124	(3)
Making the Unfamiliar Familiar	127	(5)
Is Qualitative Research for You?	132	(4)
Flexibility	132	(2)
Humor	134	(1)
Accepting Ambiguity	135	(1)
Empathy	136	(1)
Accepting One's Emotions	136	(1)
Postscript	136	(3)
Interpreting	139	(40)
Introducing Diane and This Chapter	139	(1)
The Final Analysis of Data	140	(16)
Getting Started	140	(2)
Approaches to Analysis	142	(1)
Applying Thinking Units	143	(2)
Establishing Categories	145	(2)
Creating Organizing Systems for Analysis and Applying Existing Systems	147	(3)
Developing Themes	150	(3)
Developing Vignettes/Constructs	153	(2)
Including Numbers	155	(1)
Return to Trustworthiness	156	(11)
Back to the Field	156	(2)
When Is Enough Enough?	158	(1)
Negative Case Analysis	159	(2)
Peer Involvement in the Research Process	161	(4)
Member-Checking	165	(2)
Making the Story	167	(9)
Finding a Voice	168	(1)
Creating a Narrative	169	(4)
Narrative Devices	173	(1)
Revising	174	(1)
Personal Work Strategies	175	(1)
Postscript	176	(3)
Reflecting	179	(48)
Introducing Margaret and This Chapter	179	(1)
Metaphors for Qualitative Research	180	(13)
Learning Qualitative Methods and Attitudes	182	(4)
Life-as-Research/Research-as-Life	186	(5)
Transformation of Self during the Qualitative Process	191	(2)
Researchers---Interactive, Open to Change	193	(5)
Research as a Transactional Process	196	(2)
Qualitative Research and Professional Growth	198	(12)
Shouting across Paradigmatic Rifts	210	(8)
Talking with Those outside Academia	211	(2)
Talking with Those inside Academia	213	(5)
Qualitative Research as an Ethical Endeavor	218	(9)
Concerns for the Integrity of the Study	219	(3)
Concerns for Impacts on the Participants	222	(5)
Epilogue: Margot's Last Word	227	(6)
References	233	(6)
Colleague Contributors	239	(2)
Name Index	241	(3)
Subject Index	244