Summary
This book assembles a team of internationally-renowned researchers who share a commitment to rigorous qualitative research concerned with how social worlds are constructed. The contributors reflect on the analysis of various types of qualtiative data - observations, interviews, focus groups, documents, talk, visual data and the internet - using helpful case-studies.
New to the Third Edition:
Includes new important topics such as using grounded theory, working with secondary data, systematic reviews, writing qualitative research, gender research, ethical issues, qualitative data analysis Presents new, exciting authors including Kathy Charmaz, Catherine Riessman and Clive Seale Offers new study features including internet links, chapter summaries and questions to readers Provides a more practical, student-friendly, focus on the pragmatic issues of doing qualitative research from defining a research problem through to data analysis, writing up, and applying qualitative research to social problems
