| Description |
xv, 224 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: A Sense of Things to Come -- 1. Meeting Qualitative Inquiry -- Beginnings -- Searching -- Ways of Knowing -- A Bit of Historical Context -- Varied Modes -- Part icipant. Oriented Research -- The Postmodern Context -- What Is to Come -- 2. Prestudy Tasks: Doing What Is Good for You -- The Research Topic -- Review of Literature -- Theoretical Context -- Research Statement and Questions -- Site Selection -- Selection of Study Participants -- Selection of Research Techniques -- Validity Issues -- The Time Frame -- The Lay Summary -- The Pilot Study -- Gaining Access -- Researcher Roles -- 3. Being There: Developing Understanding Through Participant Observation -- The Participant-Observation Continuum -- Part icipant. Observation Goals -- The Participant-Observation Process -- Other Fieldwork Allies: Photographs, Documents, and Artifacts -- The Participant Observer&rsquo -- S Role -- Considerations -- 4. Making Words Fly: Developing Understanding Through Interviewing -- Interviewing: An Interaction -- Developing Questions -- Setting Up to Interview -- The Nature of Interviewing -- Interviewer Attributes -- Some Typical Problems -- Focus Group Interviews -- Considerations -- 5. The Personal Dimension: Rapport, Subjectivity, and Reflexivity -- Definitions of Rapport -- Factors Bearing on Rapport -- Developing and Maintaining Rapport -- Rapport and Friendship -- Subjective Lenses -- Monitoring and Using Subjectivity -- Reflexivity -- Rapport, Subjectivity, and Reflexivity -- Notes -- 6. But Is It Ethical? Learning to Do Right -- Ethical Codes -- Informed Consent -- Researcher Roles and Ethical Dilemmas -- The Researcher-Researched Relationship -- Cultural Considerations -- No Easy Solutions -- 7. Finding Your Story: Data Analysis -- Early Data Analysis -- Later Data Analysis: Entering the Code Mines -- Displaying Data -- Using Computers -- Making Connections -- Trustworthiness of Your Interpretations -- Considerations -- Reflections -- 8. Writing Your Story: What Your Data Say -- Roles of the Writer -- Strategies for Writing -- The Text: Questions of Style -- Responsibilities of the Writer -- 9. Improvising a Song of the World: Language and Representation -- The Tale and the Teller -- The Researcher&rsquo -- S Language -- The Researcher&rsquo -- S Representations -- The Art of Re-presentation -- Autoethnography -- Poetic Transcription -- Drama -- Short Story -- Taking Risks -- Notes -- 10. The Continuing Search -- Becoming Qualitative Researchers: The Personal Context -- Applications of Qualitative Research: The Research Manuscript -- Using the Research Process -- Using Qualitative Research to Learn About Yourself -- Creating and Deepening Relationships through Qualitative Research -- Concluding Words -- Appendix: Guide for Developing a Qualitative Research Proposal |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-216) and indexes |
| Subject |
Social sciences -- Methodology.
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| LC no. |
98048121 |
| ISBN |
0801316332 paperback |
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