Successful Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide for Beginners

by Braun, Virginia; Clarke, Victoria

• ISBN13: 9781847875815
• ISBN10: 1847875815
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781446289518
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-04-05
• Publisher: Sage Pubns Ltd
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Summary

Sidestepping detailed theoretical debates and focusing on the core commonalities, this text provides students with a toolkit of methods, explains why and when each method is used, and demonstrates how they are used. For clarity and consistence, the authors use the same dataset - reproduced in full - to apply the different processes and outcomes of the analytical methods they cover. Additional data-sets and audio interviews to support the textbook are available online.

Table of Contents

Some Very Important Starting Information

10 Things You Need to Know about Qualitative Research, before You Start Doing It

Planning and Designing Qualitative Research

Interactive Data Collection 1: Interviews

Interactive Data Collection 1: Focus Groups

Textual Data Collection

Written Self-Report Data and 'Secondary' Sources

Moving towards Analysis

First Analytic Steps

Familiarization and Coding

Identifying and Analyzing Patterns across Data

Identifying and Analyzing Stories and Actions within Data

Writing and Communicating Qualitative Research

Doing First Class Qualitative Research

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