The landscape of qualitative research : theories and issues

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Author:

Denzin, Norman K.

ISBN:

9780761926948

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

xi, 684 pages ; 23 cm

Contents:

Introduction: The discipline and practice of qualitative research / Locating the field: Qualitative methods : their history in sociology and anthropology / Reconstructing the relationships between universities and society through action research / For whom? : qualitative research, representations, and social responsibilities / Ethics and politics in qualitative research / Paradigms and perspectives in transition: Paradigmatic controversies, contradictions, and emerging confluences / Interpretivism, hermeneutics, and constructionism / Feminisms and qualitative research at and into the millenium / Racialized discourses and ethnic epistemologies / Rethinking critical theory and qualitative research / Cultural studies / Sexualities, queer theory, and qualitative research / The future of qualitative research: Qualitative inquiry : tensions and transformations / The seventh moment : out of the past

Abstract:

"The landscape of qualitative research attempts to put the field of qualitative research in context. Part I locates the field, starting with history, then action research and the academy, research for whom?, and the politics and ethics of qualitative research. Part II isolates what we regard as the major historical and contemporary paradigms now structuring and influencing qualitative research in the human disciplines. The chapters move from competing paradigms (positivist, postpositivist, constructivist, critical theory) to specific interpretive perspectives, feminisms, racialized discourses, cultural studies, sexualities, and queer theory. Part III considers the future of qualitative research. [This book] will be an ideal supplement for a course on research methods, across a wide number of academic disciplines"--Page 4 of cover.

Subject Term:

Social sciences -- Research.

Qualitative research.

Qualitative reasoning.

Added Author:

Denzin, Norman K.

Lincoln, Yvonna S.

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Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0658/2002156651-t.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 first volume, The Landscape of Qualitative Research , takes a look at the field from a broadly theoretical perspective, and is composed of the Handbook ′s Parts One (`Locating the Field′), Two (`Major Paradigms and Perspectives′), and Six (`The Future of Qualitative Research′).

The Landscape of Qualitative Research attempts to put the field of qualitative research in context. Part One locates the field, providing historical context as well as background on applied qualitative research and the politics and ethics of qualitative inquiry. Part Two examines the major paradigms that inform and influence qualitative research in the human disciplines. The chapters move from competing paradigms (positivist, postpositivist, constructivist, critical theory) to specific interpretive perspectives, feminisms, racialized discourses, cultural studies, sexualities and queer theory. Part Three considers the future of qualitative research.