Qualitative Research: Issues of Theory, Method and Practice

Book Overview

This book assembles a team of internationally-renowned researchers who share a commitment to rigorous qualitative research concerned with how social worlds are constructed. The contributors reflect on the analysis of various types of qualtiative data - observations, interviews, focus groups, documents, talk, visual data and the internet - using helpful case-studies.

New to the Third Edition:

Includes new important topics such as using grounded theory, working with secondary data, systematic reviews, writing qualitative research, gender research, ethical issues, qualitative data analysisPresents new, exciting authors including Kathy Charmaz, Catherine Riessman and Clive SealeOffers new study features including internet links, chapter summaries and questions to readersProvides a more practical, student-friendly, focus on the pragmatic issues of doing qualitative research from defining a research problem through to data analysis, writing up, and applying qualitative research to social problems

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849204179
• ISBN13: 9781849204170
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.1"