Qualitative Researching with Text, Image and Sound : A Practical Handbook for Social Research

by Martin W Bauer

• ISBN13: 9780761964810
• ISBN10: 0761964819
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781446223369
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-22
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
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Summary

'This excellent text will introduce advanced students - and remind senior researchers - of the availability of a broad range of techniques available for the systematic analysis of social data that is not numeric. It makes the key point that neither quantitative nor qualitative methods are interpretive and at the same time demonstrates once and for all that neither a constructivist perspective nor a qualitative approach needs to imply abandonment of rigor. That the chapters are written by different authors makes possible a depth of expertise within each that is unusually strong' - Susanna Hornig Priest, Texas A&M University; Author of 'Doing Media Research'Qualitative Researching with Text, Image and Sound offers a unique resource for today's social researcher. This practical handbook provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to a broad range of research methods with the objective of clarifying procedures, good practice and public accountability.Following an introduction which discusses quality and quantity, and how these relate to issues of representation and knowledge interests in social research, the book is organized into four parts:· Part I covers different ways of collecting data and different types of data relating to text, image and sound: corpus construction, individual and group interviewing, narrative and episodic interviewing, video and film, and bemetology.· Part II introduces the main analytic approaches for text, image and sound: classical content analysis, argumentation, discourse, conversation analysis, rhetoric, semiotics, analysis of moving images, and of noise and music - each includes an introduction with examples and step-by-step advice on how to do it.· Part III covers computer-assisted analysis - including computer-assisted qualitative data analysis and key-word-in-context analysis.· Part IV addresses issues of good practice, looking at problems and fallacies in interpretation and develops quality criteria for qualitative research.This book provides researchers with the skills and knowledge to make the appropriate choices between different methods, types of data, and analytic procedures, and gives examples and criteria of good practice for each one. It will be essential reading for students and researchers across the social sciences.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	ix
Editorial Introduction	1	(8)
PART ONE
Introduction to Part One	9	(2)
The Chicago School of Ethnography	11	(15)
Mary Jo Deegan
Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnography	26	(13)
Paul Rock
Currents of Cultural Fieldwork	39	(21)
James D. Faubion
British Social Anthropology	60	(20)
Sharon Macdonald
Into the Community	80	(12)
Lodewijk Brunt
Mass-Observation's Fieldwork Methods	92	(17)
Liz Stanley
Orientalism	109	(9)
Julie Marcus
Ethnomethodology and Ethnography	118	(18)
Melvin Pollner
Robert M. Emerson
Phenomenology and Ethnography	136	(9)
Ilja Maso
Semiotics, Semantics and Ethnography	145	(15)
Peter K. Manning
Grounded Theory in Ethnography	160	(17)
Kathy Charmaz
Richard G. Mitchell
PART TWO
Introduction to Part Two	175	(2)
The Ethnography of Health and Medicine	177	(11)
Michael Bloor
Ethnographic Research in Educational Settings	188	(16)
Tuula Gordon
Janet Holland
Elina Lahelma
Ethnography and the Study of Deviance	204	(16)
Dick Hobbs
Ethnographies of Work and the Work of Ethnographers	220	(14)
Vicki Smith
Ethnography and the Development of Science and Technology Studies	234	(12)
David Hess
Ethnography in the Study of Children and Childhood	246	(12)
Allison James
Ethnography and Material Culture	258	(15)
Christopher Tilley
Ethnography: A Critical Turn in Cultural Studies	273	(12)
Joost Van Loon
The Ethnography of Communication	285	(17)
Elizabeth Keating
Technologies of Realism? Ethnographic Uses of Photography and Film	302	(21)
Mike Ball
Greg Smith
PART THREE
Introduction to Part Three	321	(2)
Ethnography as Work: Career Socialization, Settings and Problems	323	(16)
Christopher Wellin
Gary Alan Fine
The Ethics of Ethnography	339	(13)
Elizabeth Murphy
Robert Dingwall
Participant Observation and Fieldnotes	352	(17)
Robert M. Emerson
Rachel I. Fretz
Linda L. Shaw
Ethnographic Interviewing	369	(15)
Barbara Sherman Heyl
Narrative Analysis in Ethnography	384	(11)
Martin Cortazzi
The Call of Life Stories in Ethnographic Research	395	(12)
Ken Plummer
Autobiography, Intimacy and Ethnography	407	(19)
Deborah Reed-Danahay
Feminist Ethnography	426	(17)
Beverley Skeggs
Ethnography After Post-modernism	443	(10)
Jonathan Spencer
Computer Applications in Qualitative Research	453	(15)
Nigel Fielding
Ethnodrama: Performed Research - Limitations and Potential	468	(9)
Jim Mienczakowski
Postmodernism, Post-structuralism and Post(Critical) Ethnography: Of Ruins, Aporias and Angels	477	(16)
Patti Lather
Index	493