Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry

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Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln
SAGE Publications, Oct 24, 2012 - Social Science - 448 pages
This book is the second of three paperback volumes taken from The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, Fourth Edition. This volume isolates the major strategies—historically, the research methods—that researchers can use in conducting concrete qualitative studies. The question of methods begins with questions of design and the matters of money and funding. These questions always begin with the researcher who moves from a research question to a paradigm or perspective, and then to the empirical world. The history and uses of these strategies are explored extensively in this volume. The chapters move from forms (and problems with) mixed methods inquiry to case study, performance and narrative ethnography, to constructionist analytics to grounded theory strategies, testimonies, participatory action research, and clinical research.
 

Contents

The Discipline and Practice of Qualitative Research
1
Part I Strategies of Inquiry
43
Messages About Messages About Messages
61
Chapter 3 Controversies in Mixed Methods Research
101
Contemporary Issues in an Emerging Field
135
Chapter 5 Case Study
169
Chapter 6 Performance Ethnography
205
Chapter 7 Braiding Narrative Ethnography With Memoir and Creative Nonfiction
233
Chapter 8 The Constructionist Analytics of Interpretive Practice
253
Chapter 9 Grounded Theory Methods in Social Justice Research
291
I Say How You Should Speak Before I Listen
337
Roots and Riffs on Participatory Action Research
347
Chapter 12 What Is Qualitative Health Research?
377
Author Index
405
Subject Index
411
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Norman K. Denzin, Distinguished Emeritus Research Professor of Communications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of over 50 books and 200 professional articles and chapters. He is the past president of The Midwest Sociological Society and the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. He is the founding president of the International Association of Qualitative Inquiry (2005–) and director of the International Center of Qualitative Inquiry (2005–). He is a past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, founding coeditor of Qualitative Inquiry, and founding editor of Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies, International Review of Qualitative Research, and Studies in Symbolic Interaction: A Research Annual.

Yvonna S. Lincoln is Professor of Higher Education and Educational Administration at Texas A & M University. She is author, coauthor, or editor of such books as Naturalistic Inquiry and Fourth Generation Evaluation (both with Egon G. Guba), and Organizational Theory and Inquiry. Vice President of Division J (Postsecondary Education) of the American Educational Research Association, Dr. Lincoln formerly served as president of the American Evaluation Association and is the recipient of many prestigious awards. Dr. Lincoln coedited, with Dr. Denzin, the Handbook of Qualitative Research.

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