This exciting new book brings together contributions from world-leading scholars as well as younger researchers and focuses on cutting-edge issues related to the practice of qualitative research in the field. It provides a forum for contributors to discuss the issues and processes which inform qualitative research in its various forms as based on fieldwork experiences.In achieving this in an accessible manner to both practicing students and researchers, it seeks to enable a dialogue over ideas and provide the reader with a state of the art overview of the topic from a contemporary perspective.Rather than being a how to do book, this volume should prove vitally useful for advanced students and researchers who wish to engage with those ideas and practices in terms of their applicability for an understanding and explanation of the place of qualitative research in the social sciences. It is also a forum in which leading scholars make an original contribution to the subject.Lively and highly readable throughout, Qualitative Research in Action will be essential reading for advanced undergraduates and above in a variety of disciplines, as well as researchers who wish to engage with contemporary ideas and practices in relation to qualitative research.
Introduction Transformation in Principles and Practice PART ONE: PUTTING THE PRACTICE INTO THEORY Institutional Ethnography - Dorothy E Smith Critical Realist Ethnography - Sam Porter Framing the Rational in Fieldwork - Peter K Manning Analysing Interaction - Christian Heath and Jon Hindmarsh Video, Ethnography and Situated Conduct PART TWO: GENERALIZATION, INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS Generalization in Interpretive Research - Malcolm Williams Representation, Responsibilty and Reliability in Participant-Observation - Mart[ac]in S[ac]anchez-Jankowski Automating the Ineffable - Nigel G Fielding Qualitative Software and the Meaning of Qualitative Research Subjectivity and Qualitative Method - Valeria Walkerdine, Helen Lucey and June Melody PART THREE: CHOICES IN CONTEXT Observation and Interviewing - Kathleen Gerson and Ruth Horowitz Options and Choices in Qualitative Research Qualitative Interviewing - Jennifer Mason Asking, Listening and Interpreting Narrative in Social Research - Steph Lawler PART FOUR: POWER, PARTICIPATION AND EXPERTISE Engagement and Evaluation in Qualitative Inquiry - Linda McKie Negotiating Power and Expertise in the Field - Lynne Haney On Relations between Black Female Researcher and Participants - Tracey Reynolds PART FIVE: REFLEXIVITY, THE SELF AND POSITIONING Ethnography and the Self - Amanda Coffey Reflections and Representations Reflexivity and the Politics of Qualitative Research - Lisa Adkins Techniques for Telling the Reflexive Self - Beverley Skeggs Emotions, Fieldwork and Professional Lives - Sherryl Kleinman
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