David Silvermans second edition provides a refreshing introduction to doing and debating qualitative research. An antidote to the standard textbook, this new edition shows how research can be methodologically inventive, empirically rigorous, theoretically-alive and practically relevant. Using materials ranging from photographs to novels and newspaper stories, the book demonstrates that getting to grips with qualitative methods means asking ourselves fundamental questions about how we are influenced by contemporary culture. By drawing on examples from websites and social media in the new edition, Silvermans text acknowledges how our social worlds are changing and explores new arenas for data collection. A new Glossary of Received Ideas aims to challenge conventional understandings of terms central to qualitative research and will inform, amuse and stimulate readers.This book is perfect pre-course reading for those new to research as well as seasoned researchers who want to reflect on their practice. In this fabulous little book, David Silverman lays bare what he considers to be good and bad qualitative research and gets readers thinking about how they can come to understand the world and each other better through qualitative methods.
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David Silverman guides the reader along an enlightening pathway, exploring current issues relevant to studying the minutia of social life through naturalistic data. Sarah Seymour-Smith Nottingham Trent University
A very short suggestion: read it immediately and discover how qualitative research is best carried out! Lars Strannegard Stockholm School of Economics
With this book it is Silvermans explicit intention to go beyond basic texts on research methods and elicit an interest in the arguments within the field of qualitative inquiry. In this sense, Silverman has achieved his goal of challenging accepted understandings of qualitative research methods. -- Rachel Fang
| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction to the second edition |
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| Preface: Making a space for this book |
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1 Innumerable inscrutable habits: Why unremarkable things matter |
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2 On finding and manufacturing qualitative data |
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31 | (25) |
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3 Instances or sequences? |
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56 | (30) |
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4 Applying qualitative research |
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86 | (37) |
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5 The aesthetics of qualitative research: On bullshit and tonsils |
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123 | (28) |
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6 A very short conclusion |
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151 | (3) |
| A glossary of received ideas |
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154 | (7) |
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161 | (1) |
| References |
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162 | (8) |
| Author Index |
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170 | (3) |
| Subject Index |
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173 | |
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.
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