Qualitative Research Practice: A Guide for Social Science Students and ResearchersJane Ritchie, Jane Lewis, Professor of Social Policy Jane Lewis, Carol McNaughton Nicholls, Rachel Ormston Why use qualitative methods? What kinds of questions can qualitative methods help you answer? How do you actually do rigorous and reflective qualitative research in the real world? Written by a team of leading researchers associated with NatCen Social Research (the National Centre for Social Research) this textbook leads students and researchers through the entire process of qualitative research from beginning to end - moving through design, sampling, data collection, analysis and reporting. In this fully revised second edition you will find: A practical account of how to carry out qualitative research which recognises a range of current approaches and applications A brand new chapter on ethics A brand new chapter on observational research Updated advice on using software when analysing your qualitative data New case studies which illustrate issues you may encounter and how problems have been tackled by other researchers. This book is an ideal guide for students, practitioners and researchers faced with the challenges of doing qualitative research in both applied and academic settings in messy real-life contexts. |
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... behaviour of the researcher. Consequently the researcher can be objective in their approach and the investigation can be viewed as value free. While some researchers subscribe to this model, others believe that in the social world ...
... behaviour of the researcher. Consequently the researcher can be objective in their approach and the investigation can be viewed as value free. While some researchers subscribe to this model, others believe that in the social world ...
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... behaviour could be identified. Positivist assumptions have since been refined and questioned by those working within both the natural sciences and quantitative social research. For example, during the 1930s and 1940s, Popper criticised ...
... behaviour could be identified. Positivist assumptions have since been refined and questioned by those working within both the natural sciences and quantitative social research. For example, during the 1930s and 1940s, Popper criticised ...
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... behaviours, beliefs and values – of particular groups, typically via immersion in their community. Early examples of ethnographers include Malinowski, Radcliffe-Brown, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson and Franz Boas, all of whom studied ...
... behaviours, beliefs and values – of particular groups, typically via immersion in their community. Early examples of ethnographers include Malinowski, Radcliffe-Brown, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson and Franz Boas, all of whom studied ...
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... behaviour. As an interpretive tradition, symbolic interactionism informed the development of grounded theory as a methodological approach (Glaser and Strauss, 1967, Aldiabat and Le Navenec, 2011). One of the best known qualitative ...
... behaviour. As an interpretive tradition, symbolic interactionism informed the development of grounded theory as a methodological approach (Glaser and Strauss, 1967, Aldiabat and Le Navenec, 2011). One of the best known qualitative ...
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... behaviour •• whether it is appropriate to disregard the meaning and purpose of behaviour in controlled experimental studies •• whether overarching theories of the world and aggregated data have any relevance and applicability to the ...
... behaviour •• whether it is appropriate to disregard the meaning and purpose of behaviour in controlled experimental studies •• whether overarching theories of the world and aggregated data have any relevance and applicability to the ...
Contents
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4 ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH | 77 |
5 DESIGNING AND SELECTING SAMPLES | 111 |
6 DESIGNING FIELDWORK | 147 |
7INDEPTH INTERVIEWS | 177 |
8 FOCUS GROUPS | 211 |
9 OBSERVATION | 243 |
PRINCIPLES AND PROCESSES | 269 |
11 ANALYSIS IN PRACTICE | 295 |
12 GENERALISING FROM QUALITATIVE RESEARCH | 347 |
13 WRITING UP QUALITATIVE RESEARCH | 367 |
REFERENCES | 401 |
INDEX | 421 |
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