An Introduction to Qualitative Research

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SAGE, 2018 M12 29 - 696 páginas

The definitive guide to the full qualitative research process, from design to dissemination, this is everything you need to understand how good quality research is produced, and how to use and enrich your own work with it.

New to this edition:

- A new structure follows the research process step-by-step

- Brand new chapter on digital methods and social media data explores cutting-edge research

- Multi-disciplinary case studies give you real research examples whatever your subject

- Focused reading exercises help you explore the literature and build a better bibliography

- Integrated online resources, to master the key concepts, discover real research and track your progress

An Introduction to Qualitative Research has everything a social science student needs to understand and explore the richness of qualitative research.

 

Contenido

List of Boxes
List of Boxes
The Episodic Interview 4 Between Biography and Episode 5 Joint Narratives
List of Case Studies
How to Use this Book
The Relevance of Qualitative Research
Existing 259
Relations of Qualitative and Quantitative Research
PART 4 DATA BEYOND TALK
Collecting Data Beyond Talk
Aims of Collecting Data Beyond Talk 2 Types of Data Beyond Talk 3 What Is Observation?
What Is Participant Observation? 5 What Is Ethnography?
What Is Virtual Ethnography? 7 What Is Visual Qualitative Research?
What Are Documents?
What Are Digital Data? 10 Starting Points for Selecting an Approach for Collecting Data Beyond Talk
A Checklist

Studies of Adolescents Health Behaviour 20
Relatives 24
Exercises for Reflecting on the Chapter and for Planning Your
Positivism
Exercises for Reflecting on the Chapter and for Planning Your
Research Programmes in Qualitative Research
Project
Mimesis
Biography and Narrative
A Checklist
Exercises for Reflecting on the Chapter and for Planning Your Project
PART 2 RESEARCH DESIGN
Using Software in Qualitative Data Analysis
A Checklist 9 Exercises for Reflecting on the Chapter and for Planning Your Project
Counselling 87
Formulate Research Questions 91
Choosing and Constructing the Research Design
How to Plan and Construct Designs in Qualitative Research
Shortcut Strategies
Online Qualitative Research
Basic Designs in Qualitative Research
Case Studies
Comparative Studies
Analysis of State and Process at the Time of the Investigation
Longitudinal Studies
Starting Points for Selecting a Research Design 11 Criteriabased Comparison of the Approaches
A Checklist
Exercises for Reflecting on the Chapter and for Planning Your
Research as Linear Process
141
How and When to Use the Literature
Exercises for Reflecting on the Chapter and for Planning Your
Access to Individuals
Frameworks of Sampling for Data Collection
Types and Definition of Triangulation
Project
The Focused Interview
Counselling 230
Project
Interviews 284
280
Exercises for Reflecting on the Chapter and for Planning Your Project
Observation and Ethnography
Observation
Observation 327
Participant Observation
Ethnography
Writing Field Notes 5 Virtual Ethnography
Criteriabased Comparison of the Approaches
355
359
364
Project
Documents as Data 377
Media Research 411
PART 5 QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS
426
Awareness Contexts 462
461
Coding 478
Points 490
Coding 466
Hermeneutic Analysis
Exercises for Reflecting on the Chapter and for Planning Your Project
Hopes Fears and Fantasies 2 Ways of Using Software and Computers in Qualitative Research 3 Why Use Software for Analysing Qualitative Data? 4 ...
Zambian Adolescents 530
Examples
CAQDAS 2 0
A Checklist
Exercises for Reflecting on the Chapter and for Planning Your Project
PART 6 GROUNDING WRITING AND OUTLOOK
Criteria and Beyond
New Answers to Old Questions? 5 Quality Assessment as a Challenge for Qualitative Research 6 Quality Criteria or Strategies of Quality Assurance? 7...
Research 561
Presentation of Results 2 Legitimizing Function of Writing 3 Making Qualitative Research Relevant 4 Reflexive Function of Writing 5 Dissolution of ...
Project
595
Project
Author Index
Subject Index
ATLAS ti 531

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Uwe Flick is a professor of qualitative research at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He is a psychologist and sociologist and holds a PhD from Freie Universität Berlin. He has been professor at Alice Salomon University (Berlin) and at University of Vienna, Austria. His main research interests include qualitative methods, access to labor market for refugees and after migration, social representations of health, vulnerability, youth homelessness, and technological change in everyday life. He edited The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis (SAGE, 2014), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection (SAGE, 2018), The SAGE Qualitative Research Kit (2nd ed. SAGE, 2018). He is the author of Introducing Research Methodology: A Beginner's Guide to Doing a Research Project (2nd ed., SAGE, 2015), Designing Qualitative Research (2nd ed., SAGE, 2018), Doing Grounded Theory (SAGE, 2018), Doing Triangulation and Mixed Methods (SAGE, 2018), and, most recently, of An Introduction to Qualitative Research (6th ed., SAGE, 2018).

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