Qualitative Research Practice: A Guide for Social Science Students and ResearchersJane Ritchie, 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:
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... developed within a particular research environment, reflecting a particular mix of philosophy, research objectives, participants, funders and audiences. It will therefore be helpful for readers to understand where and how we situate our ...
... developed within a particular research environment, reflecting a particular mix of philosophy, research objectives, participants, funders and audiences. It will therefore be helpful for readers to understand where and how we situate our ...
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... developed and evidence is then collected to confirm or reject it . While qualitative research is often depicted as an inductive process , this is a rather misleading simplification . Blaikie ( 2007 ) , among others , argues that there ...
... developed and evidence is then collected to confirm or reject it . While qualitative research is often depicted as an inductive process , this is a rather misleading simplification . Blaikie ( 2007 ) , among others , argues that there ...
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... developed over the last century , and provides the wider backdrop against which qualitative research evolved and matured . Indeed it has been argued that qualitative researchers often define their approach in opposition to the perceived ...
... developed over the last century , and provides the wider backdrop against which qualitative research evolved and matured . Indeed it has been argued that qualitative researchers often define their approach in opposition to the perceived ...
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... developed , diversified and became more widely adopted across the social sciences . Within sociology and anthropology , early qualitative research often took the form of ethnographic work , which flourished in both America and Britain ...
... developed , diversified and became more widely adopted across the social sciences . Within sociology and anthropology , early qualitative research often took the form of ethnographic work , which flourished in both America and Britain ...
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... developed there have been transferred to other social science settings . The use of projective techniques for understanding the imagery surrounding phenomena is one example , the applications of focus groups another . More recently ...
... developed there have been transferred to other social science settings . The use of projective techniques for understanding the imagery surrounding phenomena is one example , the applications of focus groups another . More recently ...
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