Name: Foundations of Qualitative Research : Interpretive and Critical Approaches
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Author: Jerry W. Willis
ISBN: 9781412927413

Foundations of Qualitative Research introduces key theoretical and epistemological concepts replete with historical and current real-world examples. Author Jerry W. Willis provides an invaluable resource to guide the critical and qualitative inquiry process written in an accessible and non-intimidating style that brings these otherwise difficult concepts to life.

World Views, Paradigms, and the Practice of Social Science Research
Quantitative Research
Qualitative Research
Thinking about the Foundations and Practice of Research
What This Book Is and Is Not About
What Warrants Our Attention?
The Traditional Canon
Alternative Paradigms
New Techniques or New Paradigms?
History and Context of Paradigm Development
Positivism: A Response to Metaphysical and Magical Explanations
Critical Theory: A Response to Inequities in Society
Interpretivism: A Response to the Excesses of "Scientific" Social Science
The Special Cases of Postmodernism and Feminism
Foundational Issues: Postpositivist and Critical Perspectives
Social Science Research: The View from the Postpositivist Paradigm
Social Science Research: The View from the Critical Theory Paradigm
History and Foundations of Interpretivist Research
Nature of Reality
Purpose of Research
Acceptable Methodology/Data
The Meaning of Data
Relationship of Research to Practice
The Implications of an Interpretivist Approach
What Sorts of Research are Worthwhile?
Examples of Interpretive Research
Frameworks for Qualitative Research
Postpositivist Research"Moments" of Qualitative Research
Some General Frameworks for Qualitative Research
General Guidelines for Qualitative Research
Guidelines for Qualitative Research
Situated or Contextual Understanding, Not Truth, is the Purpose of Research
Accept Multiple Sources of Influence
Take A Foundational Rather Than Technique Perspective
Practice Recursive (Iterative) and Emergent Data Collection and Analysis
Use Multiple Sources of Data
Think of Research as a Reflective Process
The Researcher is the Primary Tool for Data Collection and Analysis
An Emphasis on Participatory versus Nonparticipatory Research
Adopt an Open Approach
Deal With Bias Directly
Select Natural Contexts for Research
Research Should be Holistic, Not Atomistic
Research Involves More Than Induction and Deduction: Analogical Reasoning, Abduction, and Family Resemblances
Alternatives to Postpositivist Criteria for Believability: Validity and Reliability
Alternative Approaches to Validity and Reliability: Triangulation and More
Conclusions?
Aren't They Generalizations?
Methods of Qualitative Research
Action Research on a Pediatric Surgical Ward
Established Qualitative Research Methods
Ethnography
Case Studies: Another Form of Qualitative Observation
Interview Research
Historigraphy
Historiography: The Research Methods of History Innovative Methods
Participatory Qualitative Research
Emancipatory Research
Critical Emancipatory Action Research
Approaches to Data Analysis and Intepretation
The Purpose of Research
General Theory
Objective Description
Hermeneutic (Verstehen) Understanding
Story telling/Narrative
Data Analysis Families
Eyeballing the Data
Connoisseurship: A Global Perspective
Hermeneutics as a Data Analysis Method
Grounded Theory
Analytic Induction
A Final Topic: The Ethics of Research
21st Century Social Science: Peering into the Future
Will the Cacophony Continue?
Why Can't Social Science Converge on The Answer?
Competition
Linearity
Dialog as an Alternative to Competition
Three Approaches to Knowing in Greek Thought
Plato
Aristotle
The Humanities
Choices 20th Century Social Science Made
Suppose We Chose Badly
Two Theories That May Help Us Build 21st Century Social Science
Poetic Logic
Chaos and Complexity Theory: Another Route to a Nonlinea Social Science
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