Keywords in Qualitative Methods : A Vocabulary of Research Concepts,9780761943310

Keywords in Qualitative Methods : A Vocabulary of Research Concepts

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ISBN13: 9780761943310
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Pub. Date: 2006-07-21
Publisher(s): SAGE Publications Ltd
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Summary

This is an accessible and practical guide to qualitative techniques for students and researchers across the social and health sciences. An essential companion for any student, the book provides a wide-ranging coverage of qualitative methods complemented by extended illustration from the array of academic disciplines in which qualitative research is found and employed. Written in a lively and reader-friendly style, this is an essential study guide for students and first-time researchers. It is a primary source of reference for advanced study, a necessary supplement to established textbooks, and a comprehensive reference guide to the specialized language of qualitative research across the social sciences.

Author Biography

Michael Bloor is a professorial research fellow at the Centre for Drug Misuse Research at Glasgow University Fiona Wood is a lecturer in the Department of General Practice at Cardiff University

Table of Contents

About the authors viii
Introduction 1(4)
A
Access Negotiations
5(4)
Action Research
9(4)
Analytic Induction
13(3)
Analytic Notes (see Research Diary)
Audio-Recording
16(2)
Authenticity (see Naturalism)
Authorial Presence (see Reflexivity)
Autoethnography
18(3)
B
Bias
21(3)
Biographies
24(3)
C
Case Study
27(4)
Chicago School (see Symbolic Interactionism)
Citizens' Jury
31(1)
Coding (see Indexing)
Cognitive Mapping
32(3)
Community Studies (see Action Research; Ethnography)
Computer-Assisted Data Analysis
35(4)
Computer-Mediated Interviewing (see Electronic Data Collection)
Confessional Accounts (see Writing)
Constant Comparative Method (see Grounded Theory)
Conversation Analysis
39(4)
Covert Research
43(4)
Critical Cases (see Case Study)
D
Dangerous Fieldwork
47(2)
Data Protection (see Ethics)
Deconstructionism (see Discourse Analysis)
Delphi Groups
49(1)
Depth Interviews (see Interviews)
Deviant Case Analysis (see Analytic Induction)
Diary Methods
50(3)
Discourse Analysis
53(4)
Documentary Methods
57(4)
E
Electronic Data Collection
61(3)
Ethics
64(5)
Ethnography
69(6)
Ethnomethodology
75(4)
F
Feminist Methods
79(3)
Fieldnotes
82(3)
Fieldwork Relationships
85(3)
Focus Groups
88(5)
Foreshadowed Problems (see Ethnography)
G
Gatekeepers (see Access Negotiations)
Generalization
93(2)
Going Native (see Bias)
Grounded Theory
95(4)
Group Interviews
99(2)
H
I
Indexing
101(3)
Indigenous Researchers (see Public Participation)
Informed Consent (see Ethics)
Interviews
104(5)
K
Key Informants
109(2)
L
Leaving the Field
111(2)
Life History (see Oral History)
Logical Analysis
113(2)
M
Member Validation (see Triangulation)
Meta Ethnography
115(1)
Mixed Methods (see Multiple Methods)
Multiple Methods
116(3)
N
Narratives
119(3)
Naturalism
122(3)
O
Observation (see Ethnography)
Oral History
125(3)
P
Participant Observation (see Ethnography)
Phenomenological Methods
128(2)
Piloting
130(2)
Positivism (see Naturalism)
Postmodernism
132(3)
Poststructuralism (see Postmodernism)
Process Evaluation
135(1)
Public Participation
136(3)
Public/Private Accounts
139(4)
Public Sociology (see 'Whose Side Are We On?')
Purposive Sampling (see Sampling)
Q
Qualitative/Quantitative Combinations (see Multiple Methods)
R
Rapid Assessment
143(2)
Realism (see Naturalism)
Reflexivity
145(2)
Reliability/Validity
147(3)
Research Diary
150(3)
Researcher Safety (see Dangerous Fieldwork)
Respondent Validation (see Triangulation)
S
Sampling
153(4)
Semi-Structured Interviews (see Interviews)
Social Network Analysis
157(2)
Software (see Computer-Assisted Data Analysis)
Symbolic Interactionism
159(4)
T
Taxonomies
163(1)
Telephone Interviewing (see Electronic Data Collection)
Theoretical Sampling (see Sampling)
Theoretical Saturation
164(2)
Thick Description (see Theoretical Saturation)
Time Sampling (see Sampling)
Transcription
166(4)
Triangulation
170(3)
Trust
173(3)
U
Uses of Qualitative Research
176(4)
V
Validity (see Reliability)
Video Analysis (see Video-Recording)
Video-Recording (and Video Analysis)
180(3)
Vignettes
183(2)
Virtual Focus Groups (see Focus Groups)
W
'Whose Side Are We On?'
185(2)
Writing
187(4)
Index 191

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