Qualitative Research: Theory, Method and Practice - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0761949348 ISBN 13: 9780761949343

Casa editrice: Sage Pubns Ltd, 2004

Riassunto

Building on the global success of the first edition of Qualitative Research: Theory, Method and Practice, the new edition has been thoroughly updated and revised. It succeeds in providing a comprehensive yet accessible guide to a variety of methodological approaches to qualitative research. Edited by David Silverman, the book brings together a team of internationally renowned researchers to discuss the theory and practice of qualitative research. In each chapter, the contributors broaden our conception of qualitative research by drawing upon particular examples of data-analysis to advance their analytical arguments. The contributors successfully combine a discussion of more traditional methods, with more recent developments in the field; including the use of internet data and researching visual culture. Illustrated by case studies and practical examples, this student-friendly and engaging text will be an invaluable resource for all students involved in qualitative research across the social sciences.

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L'autore

David Silverman is Visiting Professor in the Business School, University of Technology, Sydney, Emeritus Professor in the Sociology Department, Goldsmiths’ College and Adjunct Professor in the School of Education, Queensland University of Technology. He has lived in London for most of his life, where he attended Christ's College Finchley and did a BSc (Economics) at the London School of Economics in the 1960s. Afterwards, he went to the USA for graduate work, obtaining an MA in the Sociology Department, University of California, Los Angeles. He returned to LSE to write a PhD on organization theory. This was published as The Theory of Organizations in 1970.

Apart from brief spells teaching at UCLA, his main teaching career was at Goldsmiths College. His three major research projects were on decision making in the Personnel Department of the Greater London Council (Organizational Work, written with Jill Jones, 1975), paediatric outpatient clinics (Communication and Medical Practice, 1987) and HIV-test counselling (Discourses of Counselling, 1997). 

He pioneered a taught MA in Qualitative Research at Goldsmiths in 1985 and supervised around 30 successful PhD students. Since becoming Emeritus Professor in 1999, he has continued publishing methodology books. David regularly runs qualitative research workshops for five universities in Sydney and Brisbane. He has also run workshops for research students in Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France, Sri Lanka and Tanzania. Since 2000, he has done voluntary work with people with dementia. resident in an old people’s home

Besides all this, David's other interests include classical music, literary fiction, bridge, county cricket and spending time with his grandchildren.

Contenuti

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
Introducing Qualitative Research - David Silverman
PART TWO: OBSERVATION
Ethnography - Isabelle Baszanger and Nicolas Dodier
Relating the Part to the Whole
Building Bridges - Gale Miller and Kathryn J Fox
The Possibility of Analytic Dialogue between Ethnography, Conversation Analysis and Foucault
PART THREE: TEXTS
Analyzing Documentary Realities - Paul Atkinson and Amanda Coffey
Doing Things with Documents - Lindsay Prior
Internet Communication as a Tool for Qualitative Research - Annette Markham
PART FOUR: INTERVIEWS AND FOCUS GROUPS
The 'Inside' and the 'Outside' - Jody Miller and Barry Glassner
Finding Realities in Interviews
The Active Interview - James A Holstein and Jaber F Gubrium
Membership Categorization and Interview Accounts - Carolyn Baker
Focus Group Research - Sue Wilkinson
PART FIVE: TALK
Discourse Analysis as a Way of Analyzing Naturally Occurring Talk - Jonathan Potter
Conversation Analysis and Institutional Talk - John Heritage
Analyzing Data
PART SIX: VISUAL DATA
The Conceptualization and Analysis of Visual Data - Michael Emmison
Analyzing Face-to-Face Interaction - Christian Heath
Video and the Visual and Material
PART SEVEN: VALIDITY
Reliability and Validity in Research Based on Transcripts - Anssi Per[um]akyl[um]a
PART EIGHT: THE WIDER COMMUNITY
Addressing Social Problems through Qualitative Research - Michael Bloor
Using Qualitative Data and Analysis - Gale Miller, Robert Dingwall and Elizabeth Murphy
Reflections on Organizational Research
PART NINE: POSTSCRIPT
Who Cares about 'Experience'? Missing Issues in Qualitative Research - David Silverman

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Sage Pubns Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0761949348
• ISBN 13: 9780761949343
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Redattore: Silverman David