Researching Culture: Qualitative Method and Cultural Studies`This clearly written, well-illustrated text satisfies a long-standing need for an authoritative account of the methodology of cultural studies. It will become required reading on many courses' - David Silverman, Goldsmiths College, University of London The growth of interdisciplinary cultural studies poses new challenges for the process of doing research. In this textbook, Pertti Alasuutari introduces the range of approaches and methodological tools available for undertaking critical research, and shows how cultural studies transcend traditional divisions between qualitative and quantitative methods and between social sciences and humanities. He draws upon three main sources: the qualitative |
Contents
What is Qualitative Research? | 6 |
What is Cultural Studies? | 23 |
THE PRODUCTION OF OBSERVATIONS | 38 |
The Factist Perspective | 47 |
Cultural Distinctions | 63 |
Narrativity | 70 |
The Interaction Perspective | 85 |
The Structures of Interaction | 101 |
CrossTabulation and Quantitative Analysis | 116 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
actant Alasuutari alcohol analyzing answer applied approach asked basis Båtsfjord behaviour chapter clues collected concept concerned conversation analysis cultural studies darts players described discourse discussed distinction drinking Durkheim Émile Durkheim empirical ethnographic everyday example explain factist perspective fieldwork Finland Finnish formulated frame generalizability hand hypotheses idea individual instance interpretation interviews language Learning to Labour life-stories listening logic means Michel Foucault narrative norm object of study observation units one's participant observation person phenomena phenomenon plot possible problem programme qualitative analysis qualitative data qualitative material qualitative methods qualitative research quantitative questions raw observations reader reality refers relationship research design research material research process research report rhetorical rules sample semiotics sense Shambaa social research social science social survey society sociology statistical story structure talk tavern television viewing testing text corpus theme theoretical theory things types typology unriddling variables watch why-questions writing