Qualitative research methods for the social sciences

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Author:

Berg, Bruce L. (Bruce Lawrence), 1954-

ISBN:

9780205482634

Personal Author:

Berg, Bruce L. (Bruce Lawrence), 1954-

Edition:

6th ed.

Publication Information:

Boston : Pearson Education Allyn & Bacon, c2007

Physical Description:

xvi, 384 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Designing qualitative research -- Ch. 3. Ethical issues -- Ch. 4. A dramaturgical look at interviewing -- Ch. 5. Focus group interviewing -- Ch. 6. Ethnographic field strategies -- Ch. 7. Action research -- Ch. 8. Unobtrusive measures in research -- Ch. 9. Historiography and oral traditions -- Ch. 10. Case studies -- Ch. 11. An introduction to content analysis -- Ch. 12. Writing research papers : sorting the noodles from the soup.

Subject Term:

Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology.

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Summary

This text uses hands-on activities and real-life examples to provide themost comprehensive and straightforward coverage of doing qualitativeresearch on the market. The author's central purpose is to showinexperienced researchers how to design, collect, and analyze dataand then present their results to the scientific community, whilestressing the importance of ethics in research and taking the time toproperly design and think through any research endeavor.