Qualitative Research

David Silverman, David Silverman

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781529737097
• Edition: 5
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Research & Methodology
• Index: Social Sciences

Written by leaders of qualitative methodology, 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 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Publisher Note
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Acknowledgements
• Table of Contents
• The Editor and Contributors
• Part I Setting the Scene
• One Introducing Qualitative Research
• Two Addressing Social Problems through Qualitative Research
• Three Research Ethics: Between Care and Control
• Part II Interviews and Focus Groups
• Four The ‘Inside’ and the ‘Outside’: Finding Realities in Interviews
• Five Interviewing as a Form of Narrative Practice
• Six Analysing Focus Group Data
• Part III Ethnography
• Seven Ethnographic Approaches: Types, Trends and Themes
• Eight Organizational Ethnography
• Nine Practising Reflexivity in Ethnography
• Part IV Texts
• Ten Analysing Documents through Fieldwork
• Eleven Using Documents in Social Research
• Part V Talk
• Twelve Discursive Psychology and Naturally Occurring Talk
• Thirteen Conversation Analysis: Practices and Methods
• Part VI Expanding Technologies
• Fourteen Using Conversation Analysis and Discursive Psychology to Analyse Online Data
• Fifteen Critical Discourse Studies and Social Media Data
• Sixteen Ways of Working with Video and Online Data: From Fieldwork to Analysis
• Part VII Visual Data
• Seventeen Visual Research: Issues and Developments
• Eighteen Embodied Action: Video and the Analysis of Social Interaction
• Part VIII Qualitative Data Analysis
• Nineteen Some Pragmatics of Qualitative Data Analysis
• Twenty Multimethod Qualitative Research
• Twenty-One Constructing Grounded Theory Analyses
• Twenty-Two Narrative Approaches to Social Science
• Twenty-Three Systematic Reviews and Qualitative Studies
• Twenty-Four Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data
• Twenty-Five Validity in Qualitative Research
• Twenty-Six Writing Qualitative Research: Practice, Genre and Audience
• Appendix Simplified Transcription Symbols
• Author Index
• Subject Index