Collecting and interpreting qualitative materials

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Author:

Denzin, Norman K.

ISBN:

9780761926870

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

xiii, 682 pages ; 23 cm

Contents:

The discipline and practice of qualitative research / Methods of collecting and analyzing empirical materials. The interview : from structured questions to negotiated text / Rethinking observation : from method to context / The interpretation of documents and material culture / Reimagining visual methods : Galileo to Neuromancer / Autoethnography, personal narrative, reflexivity : researcher as subject / Data management and analysis methods / Software and qualitative research / Analyzing talk and text / Focus groups in feminist research / Applied ethnography / The art and practices of interpretation, evaluation, and representation. The problem of criteria in the age of relativism / The practices and politics of interpretation / Writing : a method of inquiry / Anthropological poetics / Understanding social programs through evaluation / Influencing the policy process with qualitative research

Abstract:

Collecting and interpreting qualitative materials introduces the researcher to basic methods of gathering, analyzing and interpreting qualitative empirical materials. Part 1 moves from interviewing to observing, to the use of artifacts, documents and records from the past; to visual, and autoethnographic methods. It then takes up analysis methods, including computer-assisted methodologies, as well as strategies for analyzing talk, and text. Esther Madriz reads focus groups through critical feminist inquiry, and Erve Chambers discusses applied ethnography. This book will be an ideal supplement for a course on research methods, across a wide number of academic disciplines.

Subject Term:

Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology.

Qualitative reasoning.

Added Author:

Denzin, Norman K.

Lincoln, Yvonna S.

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Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0658/2002156613-t.html
Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0734/2002156613-b.html
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0658/2002156613-d.html

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The second edition of the paperback series of the Handbook of Qualitative Research is virtually all new. Over half of the authors from the first edition have been replaced by new contributors - there are 33 new chapter authors or co-authors. There are six totally new chapter topics, including contributions on: queer theory, performance ethnography, testimonios, focus groups in feminist research, applied ethnography, and anthropological poetics. All returning authors have substantially revised their original contributions, in many cases producing a totally new and different chapter.

This third volume, Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials , considers the tasks of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting empirical materials, and comprises the Handbook′s Parts Four (`Methods of Collecting and Analyzing Empirical Materials′) and Five (`The Art of Interpretation, Evaluation, and Presentation′).

Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials introduces the researcher to basic methods of gathering, analyzing and interpreting qualitative empirical materials. Part One moves from interviewing to observing, to the use of artifacts, documents and records from the past; to visual, and autoethnographic methods. It then takes up analysis methods, including computer-assisted methodologies, as well as strategies for analyzing talk, and text. Esther Madriz reads focus groups through critical feminist inquiry, and Erve Chambers discusses applied ethnography.