Reviewing Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-415-89350-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 474 g

Foundational characteristics of qualitative research include flexibility, variation in application, critique, and innovation all of which derive from its subjective roots in interpretivism and constructivism. While the scholars who design qualitative research projects envision these qualities as strengths, such a breadth of practices and the assumptions that undergird them may present challenges during the peer review process. As a result, those who review and consume qualitative research often have important and difficult-to-answer questions about the project’s design, strategies/tools, and analysis, with few guidelines for gauging the merit of the work.

The mission of this book is to provide a useful guide for researchers, reviewers, and consumers who are charged with judging the quality of qualitative studies. In order to embrace the challenges and controversies that accompany this goal, the editors have solicited experts representing multiple disciplines and methods of qualitative inquiry. Their contributions represent the rich diversity in the field while simultaneously producing a pragmatic and useful guide. While it is neither possible nor desirable to compartmentalize qualitative approaches and issues into neatly organized categories, the construct of method has been chosen as a common organizing device.

The introductory chapter explains the need for such a book and underscores the foundational strengths of qualitative research: flexibility, variation, critique, and innovation. The remaining chapters review the principal approaches to qualitative research with care taken not to standardize, rigidly define, or oversimplify any approach. For ease of use, all methodological chapters are organized around the following elements of inquiry which reviewers tend to examine: definition, sampling, data collection, data analysis, representation, and congruency.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trainor, Audrey A.

Graue, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• 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
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Forward James Scheurich Chapter 1: Introduction Audrey Trainor and Elizabeth Graue Chapter 2: Standing at the corner of epistemology ave, theoretical trail and methodology blvd: Intersections in qualitative research Elizabeth Graue and Anne Karabon Chapter 3: Action Research Randy Stoecker and Mary Brydon-Miller Chapter 4: Autoethnography Chris Poulos Chapter 5: Case Studies Catherine Compton-Lilly Chapter 6: Critical Discourse Analysis Rebecca Rogers Chapter 7: Ethnography Nancy Kendall and Miriam Thangaraj Chapter 8: Grounded Theory Antony Bryant Chapter 9: Interview Research Audrey A. Trainor Chapter 10: Mixed Methods Donna Mertens Chapter 11: Oral History, Life History, and Biography Valerie Janesick Chapter 12: Narrative Research Jean Clandinin Chapter 13: Phenomenology Eileen Porter and Marlene Z. Cohen Chapter 14: Poetics and Performance Monica Prendergastand and George Belliveau Chapter 15: Positional and Identity-Based Theories Adrienne Dixson and Vanessa Dodo

Über Autor(innen)

About the Editors -- Audrey Trainor and Beth Graue have been interdepartmental colleagues at the University of Wisconsin, Madison for 7 years. Together with their colleagues and co-members of the Qualitative Research Committee in the School of Education, they have designed a qualitative research minor for doctoral students. Both are members of QSIG, the qualitative research special interest group of the American Education Research Association. Beth is a former chair of QSIG.