On Qualitative Inquiry

by KAMBERELIS, GEORGE; Dimitriadis, Greg

• ISBN13: 9780807745441
• ISBN10: 0807745448
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

In this work, the authors provide the first systematic exploration of the philosophical foundations and the historical development of qualitative inquiry for language and literacy researchers#x14;novices and experts alike.

Author Biography

George Kamberelis is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the State University of New York at Albany Greg Dimitriadis is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the State University of New York at Buffalo

Table of Contents

From the NCRLL Editors	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Logic and Structure of the Book	1	(2)
Genealogy: Thinking History Differently	3	(7)
Rhetorical Orientations and Structure of the Book	10	(3)
Into the Fray: A Practiced and Practical Set of Analytic Strata	13	(11)
Epistemologies	13	(2)
Theories	15	(2)
Approaches	17	(1)
Strategies	18	(2)
Indeterminacy and Positioning in Qualitative Inquiry	20	(4)
Predominant Chronotopes of Qualitative Inquiry	24	(36)
Why Chronotopes?	24	(5)
Chronotope I: Objectivism and Representation	29	(2)
Chronotope II: Reading and Interpretation	31	(5)
Chronotope III: Skepticism, Conscientization, and Praxis	36	(8)
Chronotope IV: Power/Knowledge and Defamiliarization	44	(14)
Summary and Conclusions	58	(2)
A Selective History of Inquiry in Anthropology	60	(32)
Anthropology in the Twentieth Century: From Sapir to Hymes to Heath and Beyond	61	(2)
Ethnography of Communication: Linguistics in a New Key	63	(1)
The Emergence of New Approaches to Research	64	(3)
Reimagining the Research(er) as an Agent of Change	67	(4)
Ongoing Proliferations of the Ethnography of Communication Tradition	71	(3)
Coda: Inquiry Logics and the Ethnography of Communication Tradition	74	(1)
Responding to the Crisis of Representation: Writing Culture and Beyond	75	(6)
Beyond the Crisis of Representation: Reimagining the Field and Fieldwork	81	(6)
Coda: Inquiry Logics in the Wake of the Crises of Representation, Evaluation, and Praxis	87	(2)
Summary and Conclusions	89	(3)
A Selective History of Inquiry in Sociology	92	(43)
Nineteenth-Century Roots: Emile Durkheim and Max Weber	92	(3)
The Chicago School of Sociology	95	(2)
Foundationalist/Modernist Strands Within the Chicago School of Sociology	97	(8)
Coda: Inquiry Logics Within Foundational/Modernist Approaches	105	(1)
Interpretive Strands of Inquiry Within the Chicago School of Sociology	105	(6)
Coda: Inquiry Logics Within Interpretive Strands of the Chicago School	111	(1)
Marxism and the Emergence of Critical Modes of Inquiry	111	(6)
Sociology as Politics: Remaking the ``Real''	117	(1)
Discourse and the Production of Reality: Michel Foucault and His Legacy	118	(5)
Reality as Articulation: From Gramsci to Deleuze and Guarttari	123	(7)
Coda: Inquiry Logics Within Critical Sociological Theory and Research	130	(2)
Summary and Conclusions	132	(3)
Qualitative Inquiry: A Transdisciplinary Metadiscourse	135	(24)
Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry Revisited: Language and Literacy Exemplars	138	(17)
Final Thoughts	155	(4)
Notes	159	(4)
References	163	(11)
Index	174	(8)
About the Authors	182