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  • Formaat: Hardback, 568 pages, kõrgus x laius: 232x186 mm, kaal: 1170 g
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  • Kirjastus: Sage Publications Ltd
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  • ISBN-13: 9781526467256
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"Cutting-edge and friendly.  Offers even more of what we've come to expect.  Practical, yet conceptually astute.  Critically attuned to new developments, such as the uses and misuses of mixed methods designs and the convenience of smart phone technology.  Packaged in an approachable format that virtually welcomes the reader aboard" - Jaber F. Gubrium, University of Missouri

With a wealth of examples and learning features, the book takes a practical approach to methods training and provides a strong foundation in research design for social science students.  

In his characteristic positive writing style, author David Silverman offers useful advice on sticking points faced by beginner researchers and helps you build your confidence.

Central to this sixth edition are its online resources, including:

  • Entertaining and inspiring videos from the author that help you unpack concepts, boost your understanding and think critically
  • An ‘assessment corner’, offering practical help and tailored support for typical assignments e.g. group reports and literature reviews
  • A downloadable workbook providing a hands on way to get to grips with the necessary skills for gathering, analysing and interpreting qualitative data

Approachable, clear and friendly, this book equips you with the tools to tackle key issues faced by qualitative researchers and establish good practice in your own research.



Now with entertaining and inspiring videos from the author and a wealth of online resources to support the text the approachable, clear and friendly Sixth Edition of David Silverman's classic text equips students with the tools to tackle key issues faced by qualitative researchers and establish good practice in their own research.

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Students who are truly interested in understanding the present digitalized society would be lost in its complexities without the help and support of the most experienced analyst of qualitative material, David Silverman. His textbooks adapt and evolve in tact with global developments and should be read by faculty and students from all social science domains. -- Barbara Czarniawska Cutting-edge and friendly.  Offers even more of what weve come to expect.  Practical, yet conceptually astute.  Critically attuned to new developments, such as the uses and misuses of mixed methods designs and the convenience of smart phone technology.  Packaged in an approachable format that virtually welcomes the reader aboard -- Endorsement The best practical guide to doing qualitative research just became even better with this new edition, which adds insight into using Mixed Method designs as well as exploring the potentialities of digital data and smartphones as data collection devices. Theoretically informed, practically oriented and engagingly composed, this book beats the others hand down! -- Stewart Clegg As someone new to qualitative research, this book has been invaluable to me.  It is detailed, well organized, simple to follow, and is a wonderful resource with useful examples. It is a MUST for anyone new to qualitative research.







  -- Wahida Sharman

List of Figures
xiii
List of Tables
xv
About the Author xix
Preface to Sixth Edition xxi
Discover your Video Collection and Online Resources xxv
PART I THEORY AND METHOD IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
1(172)
1 What is Qualitative Research?
3(28)
1.1 A simple definition of research
4(1)
1.2 Scientific reasoning
4(1)
1.3 Examples
5(3)
1.4 Methods should fit your research question
8(2)
1.5 The good sense of quantitative research
10(5)
1.6 The nonsense of quantitative research
15(3)
1.7 The good sense of qualitative research
18(2)
1.8 The nonsense of qualitative research
20(3)
1.9 Qualitative research models
23(8)
2 Designing a Research Project
31(28)
2.1 Selecting a topic
33(4)
2.2 Formulating a researchable question
37(5)
2.3 Fitting your research question into an appropriate theory
42(3)
2.4 Choosing an effective research design
45(5)
2.5 An effective literature review
50(4)
2.6 Basic terms in research design
54(3)
2.7 Conclusions
57(2)
3 Generalising from Qualitative Data
59(22)
3.1 Purposive sampling
63(1)
3.2 Theoretical sampling
64(8)
3.3 What is a `case'?
72(1)
3.4 Misunderstandings about case studies
73(2)
3.5 Conclusions
75(6)
4 Credible Qualitative Research
81(32)
4.1 Does credibility matter?
83(6)
4.2 Reliability
89(6)
4.3 Validity
95(14)
4.4 Conclusions
109(4)
5 Data Analysis
113(34)
5.1 Some rules for data analysis
114(6)
5.2 Content analysis
120(3)
5.3 Grounded theory
123(9)
5.4 Narrative analysis
132(9)
5.5 Conclusion
141(6)
6 Research Ethics
147(26)
6.1 Ethical pitfalls
150(7)
6.2 Ethical safeguards
157(7)
6.3 Some ethical complications
164(9)
PART II METHODS
173(246)
7 Interviews
175(44)
7.1 Online or face-to-face?
176(1)
7.2 What is an `open-ended' interview?
177(4)
7.3 When should you interview?
181(3)
7.4 Implications: three versions of interview data
184(2)
7.5 Positivism
186(4)
7.6 Naturalism
190(6)
7.7 Constructionism
196(8)
7.8 Moral tales of parenthood
204(5)
7.9 The three models: a summary
209(2)
7.10 Summary: basic issues
211(1)
7.11 Three practical questions - and answers
212(2)
7.12 Conclusion
214(5)
8 Focus Groups
219(28)
8.1 What are focus groups?
220(3)
8.2 When to use focus groups
223(1)
8.3 Analysing focus group data in social science
224(12)
8.4 Form or substance?
236(7)
8.5 Concluding comments
243(4)
9 Ethnography
247(42)
9.1 The ethnographic focus
253(9)
9.2 Methodological issues
262(16)
9.3 The theoretical character of ethnographic observations
278(5)
9.4 Conclusion: the unity of the ethnographic project
283(6)
10 Documents
289(46)
10.1 Four ways of analysing documents
296(1)
10.2 Comparative keyword analysis (CKA)
297(3)
10.3 Organisational documents
300(12)
10.4 Documents of everyday life
312(6)
10.5 Ethnomethodology: membership categorisation analysis
318(11)
10.6 Conclusion
329(6)
11 Talk-in-Interaction
335(40)
11.1 Discourse analysis
338(14)
11.2 Why work with recordings?
352(2)
11.3 Transcribing audio-recordings
354(4)
11.4 Why talk matters
358(1)
11.5 Conversation analysis
359(10)
11.6 Conversation analysis and discourse analysis compared
369(2)
11.7 Conclusion
371(4)
12 Visual Data
375(26)
12.1 Kinds of visual data
378(4)
12.2 Research strategies
382(5)
12.3 Content analysis
387(1)
12.4 Semiotics
388(6)
12.5 Workplace studies
394(3)
12.6 Conclusion
397(4)
13 Mixed Methods
401(18)
13.1 Advantages and disadvantages of mixed methods
403(1)
13.2 Dimensions of mixed methods research
404(1)
13.3 Combining quantitative and qualitative data
404(4)
13.4 Combining various qualitative methods
408(2)
13.5 Mixed methods and research models
410(3)
13.6 A place for mixed methods: following a thread
413(6)
PART III IMPLICATIONS
419(72)
14 Writing Your Report
421(16)
14.1 Beginnings
425(2)
14.2 Your literature review
427(1)
14.3 Your methodology section
428(1)
14.4 Writing up your data
429(3)
14.5 Your final section
432(1)
14.6 Avoiding offensive terms
432(1)
14.7 A short note on plagiarism
433(1)
14.8 Self-expression or argument?
434(3)
15 The Relevance of Qualitative Research
437(28)
15.1 Valued research problems
438(1)
15.2 Should you use qualitative methods to study social problems?
439(2)
15.3 Resistance to qualitative research and its findings
441(3)
15.4 Whose side are we on?
444(4)
15.5 The audiences for qualitative research
448(7)
15.6 The contribution of qualitative social science
455(5)
15.7 Summary
460(1)
15.8 Conclusion
461(4)
16 The Potential of Qualitative Research: Eight Reminders
465(26)
16.1 Take advantage of naturalistic data
468(2)
16.2 Avoid treating the actor's point of view as an explanation
470(4)
16.3 Study the interrelationships between elements
474(3)
16.4 Attempt theoretically fertile research
477(3)
16.5 Address wider audiences
480(2)
16.6 Begin with `how' questions; only then ask `why?'
482(1)
16.7 Study `hyphenated' phenomena
483(2)
16.8 Treat qualitative research as different from journalism
485(1)
16.9 Concluding remarks
486(5)
Glossary 491(6)
Appendix: Simplified Transcription Symbols 497(2)
References 499(26)
Author Index 525(6)
Subject Index 531
David Silverman trained as a sociologist at the London School of Economics and the University of California, Los Angeles. He taught for 32 years at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he is now Emeritus Professor in the Sociology Department as well as Visiting Professor in the Business Schools, Kings College, London, Leeds University and University of Technology Sydney and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology. He is interested in conversation and discourse analysis and he has researched medical consultations, shelters for homeless people and HIV-test counselling.

He is the author of Doing Qualitative Research (sixth edition, 2022) and A Very Short, Fairly Interesting, Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research (second edition, 2013c). He is the editor of Qualitative Research (fifth edition, 2021) and the Sage series Introducing Qualitative Methods. In recent years, he has offered short, hands-on workshops in qualitative research for universities in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. 

Now retired from full-time work, he aims to watch 100 days of county cricket a year. He also enjoys spending time with his grandchildren and great-grandsons as well as voluntary work in an old peoples home where he chats and sings with residents.