This is an accessible and practical guide to qualitative techniques for students and researchers across the social and health sciences. An essential companion for any student, the book provides a wide-ranging coverage of qualitative methods complemented by extended illustration from the array of academic disciplines in which qualitative research is found and employed. Written in a lively and reader-friendly style, this is an essential study guide for students and first-time researchers. It is a primary source of reference for advanced study, a necessary supplement to established textbooks, and a comprehensive reference guide to the specialized language of qualitative research across the social sciences.

About the authors

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Introduction

1

(4)

A

Access Negotiations

5

(4)

Action Research

9

(4)

Analytic Induction

13

(3)

Analytic Notes (see Research Diary)

Audio-Recording

16

(2)

Authenticity (see Naturalism)

Authorial Presence (see Reflexivity)

Autoethnography

18

(3)

B

Bias

21

(3)

Biographies

24

(3)

C

Case Study

27

(4)

Chicago School (see Symbolic Interactionism)

Citizens' Jury

31

(1)

Coding (see Indexing)

Cognitive Mapping

32

(3)

Community Studies (see Action Research; Ethnography)

Computer-Assisted Data Analysis

35

(4)

Computer-Mediated Interviewing (see Electronic Data Collection)

Confessional Accounts (see Writing)

Constant Comparative Method (see Grounded Theory)

Conversation Analysis

39

(4)

Covert Research

43

(4)

Critical Cases (see Case Study)

D

Dangerous Fieldwork

47

(2)

Data Protection (see Ethics)

Deconstructionism (see Discourse Analysis)

Delphi Groups

49

(1)

Depth Interviews (see Interviews)

Deviant Case Analysis (see Analytic Induction)

Diary Methods

50

(3)

Discourse Analysis

53

(4)

Documentary Methods

57

(4)

E

Electronic Data Collection

61

(3)

Ethics

64

(5)

Ethnography

69

(6)

Ethnomethodology

75

(4)

F

Feminist Methods

79

(3)

Fieldnotes

82

(3)

Fieldwork Relationships

85

(3)

Focus Groups

88

(5)

Foreshadowed Problems (see Ethnography)

G

Gatekeepers (see Access Negotiations)

Generalization

93

(2)

Going Native (see Bias)

Grounded Theory

95

(4)

Group Interviews

99

(2)

H

I

Indexing

101

(3)

Indigenous Researchers (see Public Participation)

Informed Consent (see Ethics)

Interviews

104

(5)

K

Key Informants

109

(2)

L

Leaving the Field

111

(2)

Life History (see Oral History)

Logical Analysis

113

(2)

M

Member Validation (see Triangulation)

Meta Ethnography

115

(1)

Mixed Methods (see Multiple Methods)

Multiple Methods

116

(3)

N

Narratives

119

(3)

Naturalism

122

(3)

O

Observation (see Ethnography)

Oral History

125

(3)

P

Participant Observation (see Ethnography)

Phenomenological Methods

128

(2)

Piloting

130

(2)

Positivism (see Naturalism)

Postmodernism

132

(3)

Poststructuralism (see Postmodernism)

Process Evaluation

135

(1)

Public Participation

136

(3)

Public/Private Accounts

139

(4)

Public Sociology (see `Whose Side Are We On?')

Purposive Sampling (see Sampling)

Q

Qualitative/Quantitative Combinations (see Multiple Methods)

R

Rapid Assessment

143

(2)

Realism (see Naturalism)

Reflexivity

145

(2)

Reliability/Validity

147

(3)

Research Diary

150

(3)

Researcher Safety (see Dangerous Fieldwork)

Respondent Validation (see Triangulation)

S

Sampling

153

(4)

Semi-Structured Interviews (see Interviews)

Social Network Analysis

157

(2)

Software (see Computer-Assisted Data Analysis)

Symbolic Interactionism

159

(4)

T

Taxonomies

163

(1)

Telephone Interviewing (see Electronic Data Collection)

Theoretical Sampling (see Sampling)

Theoretical Saturation

164

(2)

Thick Description (see Theoretical Saturation)

Time Sampling (see Sampling)

Transcription

166

(4)

Triangulation

170

(3)

Trust

173

(3)

U

Uses of Qualitative Research

176

(4)

V

Validity (see Reliability)

Video Analysis (see Video-Recording)

Video-Recording (and Video Analysis)

180

(3)

Vignettes

183

(2)

Virtual Focus Groups (see Focus Groups)

W

`Whose Side Are We On?'

185

(2)

Writing

187

(4)

Index

191

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