Introducing qualitative research : a student's guide to the craft of doing qualitative research / Rosaline S. Barbour
- Bib ID:
- 4317974
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Barbour, Rosaline S
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications Ltd, 2008
- viii, 319 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781412912662
- 9781412934602
- Summary:
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An ideal starter text for those new to the field, providing thorough coverage of all the core areas of qualitative research practice. Rose Barbour draws on her extensive teaching experience to provide a clear, user-friendly introduction to the craft of doing qualitative research. Each chapter comes with a range of exercises and with excerpts of genuine qualitative data that help the reader get a good feel for the process of generating and analyzing qualitative data. The author's hands-on explanatory style used throughout makes this the ideal textbook for students of qualitative methods courses in any social science discipline, and for students or novice researchers doing research projects using qualitative approaches. (Publisher's blurb)
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction.
- Scope and contribution of qualitative research.
- Research design.
- Ethics.
- 2. Generating Data.
- Ethnography.
- Interviewing.
- Focus Groups.
- 3. Complex research designs in practice.
- Mixing methods.
- Active research.
- 4. Analyzing and presenting qualitative data.
- Analysis groundwork-storing, coding, and retrieving data.
- Interrogating your data-identifying patterns.
- Theorizing in qualitative data analysis.
- Presenting and writing up qualitative research.
- New challenges and perennial dilemmas.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-311) and index.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Introducing qualitative research : a student guide to the craft of doing qualitative research
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- Publication date:
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