Designing Qualitative Research

By Catherine Marshall

Book Overview

Addressing the complexity, flexibility, and controversies of qualitative research's many genres, Designing Qualitative Research, Sixth Edition gives students, research managers, policy analysts, and applied researchers clear, easy-to-understand guidance on designing qualitative research. While maintaining a focus on the proposal stage, this best-selling book takes readers from selecting a research genre through building a conceptual framework, data collection and interpretation, and arguing the merits of the proposal. Extended discussions cover strategies that researchers can use to address the challenges posed by postmodernists, feminists, and critical race theorists, as well as others who interrogate historical qualitative inquiry. The book also includes thoughtful discussion on trustworthiness and ethics, in addition to dealing with time, resource, and political stressors inherent to the research process. Throughout the book, the authors emphasize the importance of being systematic but also inspire readers with potential "Aha " moments and opportunities to do research in close connection with people and communities.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1452271003
• ISBN13: 9781452271002
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Good Qualitative Research Resource!

This book is a must have in your qualitative research collection. The authors did a great job presenting different assessment techniques, how to do research in the qualitative way, and walk you through the whole process. From designing your research to data analysis. Excellent resource!

Helpful text

This was my first time learning qualitative research and I have found this book to be very good for the beginner, like me. It is written clearly and has many examples to clarify points.

The best yet

I have recently read this book and found it very useful in terms of providing up to date references on most aspects of Qualitative Research. I found the chapters on Thematic analysis and coding very helpful indeed and wished that I had this book when engaged in my doctoral studies. I am pleased to refer researchers and students engaged in such work to carefully read this book. I plan to use it in an upcoming Journal paper that I am writing.

Very Helpful

I used this as a reference during a Masters class. It was very useful when it came time to design my research project.

Great Overview on Qualitative Research

If you are in graduate school and decide to do your thesis as a qualitative research project, I would highly recommend this book. Even though the authors describe what qualitative research is, I would recommend that you read one of the texts they mention for the individual techniques. For example, even though it has a nice overview of case study, one should read Yin's book on case study research.