Developing Focus Group Research: Politics, Theory and Practice

By Rosaline S. Barbaour and Rosaline S. Barbour

Book Overview

This book critically examines the potential of, and suggests ways forward in, harnessing a versatile and powerful method of research - focus groups. The book challenges some of the emerging orthodoxies and presents accessible, insightful and reflective discussions about the issues around focus group work.

The contributors, an impressive group of experienced researchers from a range of disciplines and traditions, discuss different ways of designing, conducting and analyzing focus group research. They examine sampling strategies; the implications of combining focus groups with other methods; accessing views of minority′ groups; their contribution to participatory or feminist research; use of software packages; discourse analysis; and the epistemological and political underpinnings of research.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761955682
• ISBN13: 9780761955689
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"