Title:
Readme first for a user's guide to qualitative methods
Author:
Richards, Lyn.
ISBN:
9781412998062
Personal Author:
Edition:
3rd ed.
Publication Information:
Los Angeles : Sage, ©2013.
Physical Description:
xx, 311 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Why Readme First? -- Goals -- Methods and Their Integrity -- Methodological Diversity and Informed Choice -- No Mysteries! -- Learning by Doing It: Qualitative Research as a Craft -- Qualitative Research as a Challenge -- Using Readme First -- Terminology -- The Shape of the Book -- Doing Qualitative Research: What to Expect -- Resources -- pt. I THINKING RESEARCH -- 2.The Integrity of Qualitative Research -- Methodological Purposiveness -- Why Are You Working Qualitatively? -- The Research Question Requires It -- The Data Demand It -- Should You Be Working Qualitatively? -- How Should You Be Working Qualitatively? -- From Selecting a Method to Making Data -- From Choosing Sources and Sorts of Data to Managing and Analyzing Data -- Methodological Congruence -- Seeing Congruence by Doing It -- The Armchair Walkthrough -- And Now---Your Topic? -- How to Find a Topic -- You Are Already There -- There Is a Gap in the Literature --
Contents note continued: Another Way of Looking Is Needed -- What's Going on Here? -- Supplementing Quantitative Inquiry -- Now, Consider the Research Context -- Considering What You Want to Know -- Considering What You Are Studying -- Considering the Setting -- Considering What You Want to Do -- Considering Issues in Finding Participants -- Considering Ethical Constraints -- From Topic to Researchable Question: Focusing Qualitative Inquiry -- What Can You Aim For? -- Summary -- Resources -- 3.Choosing a Method -- Description and Interpretation -- Starting Simple -- Five Methods -- Ethnography -- What Sorts of Questions Are Asked? -- The Researcher's Stance -- What Sorts of Data Are Needed? -- What Do the Results Look Like? -- Different Approaches Within Ethnography -- Grounded Theory -- What Sorts of Questions Are Asked? -- The Researcher's Stance -- What Sorts of Data Are Needed? -- What Do the Results Look Like? -- Different Approaches Within Grounded Theory --
Contents note continued: Phenomenology -- What Sorts of Questions Are Asked? -- The Researcher's Stance -- What Sorts of Data Are Needed? -- What Do the Results Look Like? -- Different Approaches Within Phenomenology -- Discourse Analysis -- What Sorts of Questions Are Asked? -- The Researcher's Stance -- What Sorts of Data Are Needed? -- What Do the Results Look Like? -- Different Approaches Within Discourse Analysis -- Case Study Method -- What Sorts of Questions Are Asked? -- The Researcher's Stance -- What Sorts of Data Are Needed? -- What Do the Results Look Like? -- Different Approaches Within Case Study Method -- Summary -- Resources -- 4.Qualitative Research Design -- The Levels of Design -- Planning Design -- The Scope of the Project -- Designing the Scope -- The Nature of the Data -- Doing Design -- Designing for Validity -- Project Pacing -- Conceptualizing Stage -- Entering the Field -- Setting Up and Managing a Data Management System --
Contents note continued: Sampling and Theoretical Sampling -- Analysis -- Designs Using More Than One Study -- Mixed Method Designs -- Combining Qualitative Studies -- Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Studies -- Multiple Method Designs -- Synthesizing Multiple Studies -- Using Different Ways of Looking -- Comparative Design -- Triangulated Design -- Taking an Overview -- Choosing Your Software -- Using Your Software for Research Design -- Approaches -- Advances -- Alerts -- Summary -- Resources -- pt. II INSIDE ANALYSIS -- 5.Making Data -- What Data Will Your Study Need? -- What Will Be Data (and What Will Not)? -- The Researcher in the Data -- Good Data/Bad Data -- Ways of Making Data -- Interviews -- Interactive Interviews -- Semistructured Questionnaires -- Conversations -- Group Interviews -- Observations -- Online Sources -- Video Recording -- Photography -- Documents -- Diaries and Letters -- Indirect Strategies -- Who Makes Data? -- Transforming Data --
Contents note continued: Managing Data -- Managing Focus Group Data -- The Role of Data -- Yourself as Data -- You and Those You Study -- Your Experience as Data -- Using Your Software for Managing Data -- Approaches -- Advances -- Alerts -- Summary -- Resources -- 6.Coding -- Getting Inside the Data -- A Reminder: The Distinctiveness of Qualitative Methods -- Storing Ideas -- Doing Coding -- Descriptive Coding -- What Is It Used For? -- How Is It Done? -- Where Is It Used? -- Topic Coding -- What Is It Used For? -- How Is It Done? -- Where Is It Used? -- Analytic Coding -- What Is It Used For? -- How Is It Done? -- Where Is It Used? -- Theme-ing -- Purposiveness of Coding -- Tips and Traps: Handling Codes and Coding -- Code as You Learn -- Always See Coding as Reflection -- Never Code More Than You Need -- Manage Your Codes -- Monitor Coding Consistency -- Using Your Software for Coding -- Approaches -- Advances -- Alerts -- Summary -- Resources -- 7.Abstracting --
Contents note continued: The First Step: Categorizing -- Categorization and Coding -- Categorization as Everyday Strategy -- The Next Step: Conceptualizing -- Doing Abstraction -- When Does It Happen? -- How Is It Done? -- Managing Abstraction -- Documenting Ideas: Definitions, Memos, and Diaries -- Growing Ideas -- Managing Categories: Index Systems -- Models and Diagrams -- Using Your Software for Managing Ideas -- Approaches -- Advances -- Alerts -- Summary -- Resources -- 8.From Method to Analysis: Revisiting Methodological Congruence -- Ethnography -- Working With Data -- First-Level Description -- Thick Description -- Comparison -- Strategies of Analysis -- Grounded Theory -- Working With Data -- Memos and Their Importance -- Data Preparation -- Strategies of Analysis -- Strategies That Facilitate the Identification of Process -- Strategies for Coding -- Strategies With Memos -- Theory-Building Strategies -- Changing Grounded Theory -- Phenomenology -- Working With Data --
Contents note continued: Strategies of Analysis -- Discourse Analysis -- Working With Data -- Strategies of Analysis -- Case Study Method -- Working With Data -- Strategies of Analysis -- Summary -- Resources -- pt. III GETTING IT RIGHT -- 9.On Getting It Right and Knowing if It's Wrong -- Ensuring Rigor in the Design Phase -- Appropriate Preparation -- Appropriate Review of the Literature -- Thinking Qualitatively, Working Inductively -- Using Appropriate Methods and Design -- Ensuring Rigor While Conducting a Project -- Using Appropriate Sampling Techniques -- Responsiveness to Strategies That Are Not Working -- Appropriate Pacing of the Project -- Coding Reliably -- When Is It Done? -- Project Histories -- Audit Trails -- Your Findings and the Literature -- Demonstrating Rigor on Completion of the Project -- Triangulating With Subsequent Research -- Reaffirming Through Implementation -- Summary -- Resources -- 10.Writing It Up -- Ready to Write? --
Contents note continued: Who Is It for, and Where Will It Appear? -- Writing Qualitatively -- Using Your Data -- When Do You Use Quotations? -- Editing Quoted Material -- Using Yourself -- Brevity and Balance -- Re-revisiting Methodological Congruence -- Protecting Participants -- Evaluating Your Writing -- Polishing -- Using Your Software for Writing -- Approaches -- Advances -- Alerts -- Writing Your Thesis or Dissertation -- Beginning to Write -- Writing an Article for Publication -- Beginning to Write -- After Publication, Then What? -- Findings Used Alone -- Use the Theory as a Framework for Practice -- Bring the Implicit and the Informal to the Fore -- Delimit Scope or Boundaries of Problems or Concepts -- Describe the Problem and Aid in Identification of the Solution -- Provide an Evaluation of Nonmeasurable Interventions -- The Cumulative Effect of Research Results -- Summary -- Resources -- pt. IV BEGINNING YOUR PROJECT -- 11.Groundwork for Beginning Your Project --
Contents note continued: Writing Your Proposal -- Using the Literature Review -- Writing the Methods Section -- Estimating Time (and Related Resources) -- Developing a Budget -- A Note on Dealing With Available Data -- Ensuring Ethical Research -- The Challenge of Anonymity -- Permissions -- Participant Assent and Consent -- Summary -- Resources -- 12.Getting Started -- Why Is It So Hard to Start? -- How Do You Start? -- Start in the Library -- Start With an Armchair Walkthrough -- Start Thinking Method -- Start With Yourself -- What Role Should the Researcher's Personal Experience Play? -- Hidden Agendas -- Start Small -- Start Safe -- Start Soon -- Start With a Research Design -- Start Skilled -- Start in Your Software -- Congratulations, You've Started! -- Resources.
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