Qualitative Research in ActionTim May This exciting new book brings together contributions from world-leading scholars as well as younger researchers and focuses on cutting-edge issues related to the practice of qualitative research in the field. It provides a forum for contributors to discuss the issues and processes which inform qualitative research in its various forms as based on fieldwork experiences. In achieving this in an accessible manner to both practicing students and researchers, it seeks to enable a dialogue over ideas and provide the reader with a "state of the art" overview of the topic from a contemporary perspective. Rather than being a "how to do" book, this volume should prove vitally useful for advanced students and researchers who wish to engage with those ideas and practices in terms of their applicability for an understanding and explanation of the place of qualitative research in the social sciences. It is also a forum in which leading scholars make an original contribution to the subject. Lively and highly readable throughout, Qualitative Research in Action will be essential reading for advanced undergraduates and above in a variety of disciplines, as well as researchers who wish to engage with contemporary ideas and practices in relation to qualitative research. |
Contents
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Chapter 2 Critical realist ethnography | 53 |
Chapter 3 Framing the rational in fieldwork | 73 |
Video ethnography and situated conduct | 99 |
Generalization interpretation and analysis | 123 |
Chapter 5 Generalization in intepretive research | 125 |
Asking listening and interpreting | 225 |
Chapter 11 Narrative in social research | 242 |
Power participation and expertise | 259 |
Chapter 12 Engagement and evaluation in qualitative inquiry | 261 |
Chapter 13 Negotiating power and expertise in the field | 286 |
Chapter 14 On relations between black femal researchers and participants | 300 |
Reflexivity the self and positioning | 311 |
Reflections and representations | 313 |
Chapter 6 Representation responsibility and reliability in participantobservation | 144 |
Qualitatie software and the meaning of qualitative research | 161 |
Chapter 8 Subjectivity and qualitative method | 179 |
Choices in Context | 197 |
Options and choices in qualitative research | 199 |
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