Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85702-475-6
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

This book is a 'survival guide' for students and researchers who would like to conduct a qualitative study with limited resources. Brinkmann shows how everyday life materials such as books, television, the internet, the media and everyday conversations and interactions can help us to understand larger social issues.

As living human beings in cultural worlds, we are constantly surrounded by 'data' that call for analysis, and as we cope with the different situations and episodes of our lives, we are engaged in understanding and interpreting the world as a form of qualitative inquiry. The book helps its reader develop a disciplined and analytic awareness informed by theory, and shows how less can be more in qualitative research. Each chapter introduces theoretical tools to think with, and demonstrates how they can be put to use in working concretely with everyday life materials.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brinkmann, Svend

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten, Studientechnik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Forschungsmethoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten, Studientechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Making Less More
PART ONE
Qualitative Research and Everyday Life
The Epistemology of Working with Everyday Life Materials
The Ethics of Working with Everyday Life Materials
PART TWO
Self Observation
Conversations
Media Materials
Movies, Images and Television
Books of Fiction
Conclusions: On Quality

Über Autor(innen)

Brinkmann, Svend
Svend Brinkmann is professor of psychology in the Department of Communication and Psychology at the University of Aalborg, Denmark, where he serves as co-director of the Center for Qualitative Studies with Lene Tanggaard. His research is particularly concerned with philosophical, moral, and methodological issues in psychology and other human and social sciences. He is author and co-author of numerous articles and books, including John Dewey: Science for a Changing World, Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life, and Qualitative Interviewing.

Svend Brinkmann is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, where he is a member of the Centre of Qualitative Research. He has studied psychology and philosophy at Aarhus and Oxford universities and received his Ph.D. in psychology from Aarhus University for a study of the moral presuppositions and implications of psychology, entitled Psychology as a Moral Science. His research interests include qualitative methods, moral inquiry, the philosophy of psychology, and approaches to human science such as pragmatism, hermeneutics, and postmodernism. He is author of John Dewey – En introduktion (John Dewey – An Introduction, 2006), and has co-edited with Cecilie Eriksen Selvrealisering – Kritiske diskussioner af en grænseløs udviklingskultur (Self-realization – Critical discussions of a boundless culture of development, 2005), and with Lene Tanggaard Psykologi: Forskning og profession (Psychology: Research and Profession, 2007).