Full Description
This Second Edition of Uwe Flick's bestselling textbook retains all of the student-friendly elements and carefully structured and thought-through qualities of the first, but with much more besides. As a consequence, An Introduction to Qualitative Research, Second Edition should preserve its status as the essential introductory text for all students of qualitative research. All of the major theories, methods and new approaches are still presented in an accessible manner. As well, the incorporation of many practical examples and summary boxes, helping to inform students and researchers of the right decisions to take in terms of research strategy, ensures that this text remains thoroughly practical. However, each chapter has been fully updated in terms of references and reading lists, and an entirely new section on Recent and Further Developments has been written, including chapters on: Computers in Qualitative Research; Qualitative and Quantitative Research; Quality in Qualitative Research; and The Future of Qualitative Research.
Contents
Qualitative Research: Relevance, History, Features / PART ONE: FROM THEORY TO TEXT / Theoretical Positions / Construction and Understanding of Texts / PART TWO: RESEARCH DESIGN / Process and Theories / Research Questions / Entering the Field / Sampling Strategies / PART THREE: VERBAL DATA / Semi-Structured Interviews / Narratives as Data / Focus Group Interviews and Discussions / Verbal Data: An Overview / PART FOUR: VISUAL DATA / Observation, Ethnography and Visual Data Methods / Visual Data: An Overview / PART FIVE: FROM TEXT TO THEORY / Documentation of Data / Coding and Categorizing / Sequential Analyses / Text Interpretation: An Overview / Grounding Qualitative Research / Writing Qualitative Research / PART SIX: RECENT AND FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS / Computers in Qualitative Research / Qualitative and Quantitative Research / The Quality of Qualitative Research: Beyond Criteria
