Developing Focus Group Research: Politics, Theory and PracticeJenny Kitzinger, Rosaline Barbour This book critically examines the potential of, and suggests ways forward in, harnessing a versatile and powerful method of research - focus groups. The book challenges some of the emerging orthodoxies and presents accessible, insightful and reflective discussions about the issues around focus group work. The contributors, an impressive group of experienced researchers from a range of disciplines and traditions, discuss different ways of designing, conducting and analyzing focus group research. They examine sampling strategies; the implications of combining focus groups with other methods; accessing views of `minority' groups; their contribution to participatory or feminist research; use of software packages; discourse anal |
Contents
Notes on contributors | 9 |
The impact of context on data | 21 |
telling how it | 36 |
How useful are focus groups in feminist research? | 64 |
Do focus groups facilitate meaningful participation in social | 79 |
How useful are focus groups for obtaining the views | 99 |
Are focus groups an appropriate tool for studying | 113 |
Can focus groups access community views? | 127 |
Some issues arising in the systematic analysis of focus group | 144 |
Can focus groups be analysed as talk? | 173 |
Theorizing subjects and subject matter in focus group | 186 |
Afterword | 200 |
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Developing Focus Group Research: Politics, Theory and Practice Jenny Kitzinger,Rosaline Barbour No preview available - 1999 |
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Risks, Identities and the Everyday Dr Jayne Raisborough,Dr Julie Scott Jones No preview available - 2012 |