Full of practical tips, exercises and summaries, this book continues to be a masterclass in qualitative research for students and researchers across the social sciences and beyond.
Written by leaders of qualitative methodology and edited by one of the biggest names in the field, this book provides up-to-date and interdisciplinary insight into a range of qualitative methods. Bringing together different perspectives, contributors discuss theoretical underpinnings of these methods before taking readers through the process of each approach and helping them develop skills needed to carry out this type of research autonomously and with confidence.
Highlights of this new edition include:
- New chapters on multimethod qualitative research, using digital data and video, and addressing social issues in research.
- More guidance on how to store and manage data appropriately.
- Advice on how to publish research in journals.
Full of practical tips, exercises and summaries, this book continues to be a masterclass in qualitative research for students and researchers across the social sciences and beyond.
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This book of readings provides us with a wealth of varied advice enlightening the researcher about the exciting world of qualitative research. I recommend the book without hesitation. -- David Avison David Silvermans Qualitative Research, now in its 5th edition, is a storehouse of readily accessible approaches to doing qualitative research. it combines in depth focus with broad coverage an essential resource for researchers requiring up to date advice on the latest approaches to this burgeoning field of research and study. -- Stewart Clegg The fifth edition of this advanced reader in qualitative methods has retained and added to its stunning line-up of authors, increasing and updating its breadth and depth to present leading accounts of the fast moving field of social media analysis and the use of video and other visual data, in addition to a wide range of other methods used by qualitative researchers. This book will really help qualitative researchers think through and enhance their practice and I recommend it -- Clive Seale It provided me with ideas for further research in my field based on visual methods, internet communication, ethnography, and focus groups. -- Izhar Oplatka * TQR *
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1 Introducing Qualitative Research |
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2 Addressing Social Problems through Qualitative Research |
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3 Research Ethics: Between Care and Control |
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PART II INTERVIEWS AND FOCUS GROUPS |
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4 The `Inside' and the `Outside': Finding Realities in Interviews |
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5 Interviewing as a Form of Narrative Practice |
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6 Analysing Focus Group Data |
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7 Ethnographic Approaches: Types, Trends and Themes |
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8 Organizational Ethnography |
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9 Practising Reflexivity in Ethnography |
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10 Analysing Documents through Fieldwork |
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11 Using Documents in Social Research |
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12 Discursive Psychology and Naturally Occurring Talk |
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13 Conversation Analysis: Practices and Methods |
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PART VI EXPANDING TECHNOLOGIES |
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14 Using Conversation Analysis and Discursive Psychology to Analyse Online Data |
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15 Critical Discourse Studies and Social Media Data |
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16 Ways of Working with Video and Online Data: From Fieldwork to Analysis |
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17 Visual Research: Issues and Developments |
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18 Embodied Action: Video and the Analysis of Social Interaction |
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PART VIII QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS |
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19 Some Pragmatics of Qualitative Data Analysis |
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20 Multimethod Qualitative Research |
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21 Constructing Grounded Theory Analyses |
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22 Narrative Approaches to Social Science |
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23 Systematic Reviews and Qualitative Studies |
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24 Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data |
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25 Validity in Qualitative Research |
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26 Writing Qualitative Research: Practice, Genre and Audience |
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| Appendix |
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| Author Index |
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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.
