About the Book

Qualitative research is a burgeoning field which has attracted a growing amount of self-reflection. Reflecting the growth of interest among qualitative researchers in the nature of their craft, this collection extends the value of the critically acclaimed first edition of Qualitative Research, edited by Alan Bryman and Robert G. Burgess by emphasizing key issues that demand the attention of qualitative researchers.

It explores with topics that have come increasingly to the fore in the years since the publication Qualitative Research in 1999. Thus, topics such as visual research, biographical method, narrative analysis, computer-assisted qualitative data analysis, and reflexivity that have become more prominent over the last five years will be given the greater attention they increasingly warrant.

Volume I will cover issues to do with the collection of data, including sampling. While covering traditional topics, such as ethnography and qualitative interviewing, it will reflect the greater diversity of approaches to data collection that has arisen since the last set, such as visual ethnography, qualitative evaluation, biographical approaches, and new developments in qualitative interviewing.

Volume II will address matters concerned with quality criteria in relation to qualitative research.

Volume III deals with issues of representation and generalization and as such will cover topics to do with the issue of realism and how and whether it is possible to provide a definitive representation of social reality.

Volume IV contains selections relating qualitative data analysis. It will include discussions of the main approaches to qualitative data analysis (including discourse analysis and conversation analysis) and will reflect the growing interest in and importance attached to computer-assisted qualitative data analysis

Table of Contents:
Volume One: Collecting Data for Qualitative Research Introduction - A Bryman PART ONE: INTERVIEWING Learning to Interview in the Social Sciences - K Roulston et al Comparing Telephone and Face-to-Face Qualitative Interviewing - Judith E Sturges and Kathleen J Hanrahan A Research Note Dominance through Interviews and Dialogues - S Kvale PART TWO: ETHNOGRAPHY Observations and Reflections of a Perpetual Fieldworker - R C Fox Time for Ethnography - Bob Jeffrey and Geoff Troman Can There Be a Feminist Ethnography? - L Abu-Lughod New Connections, Familiar Settings - H Mackay Issues in the Ethnographic Study of New Media Use at Home Being There... and There and There! - U Hannerz PART THREE: LIFE HISTORY Collecting Life Histories - J du Boulay and R Williams Conducting Life History Research with Adolescents - Kristin Haglund Computer-Assisted Life Stories - G Harlow et al PART FOUR: INTERNET-BASED METHODS The Field behind the Screen - R V Kozinets Using Netnography for Marketing Research in Online Communities Online Inquiry of Public Selves - Kendal L Broad and Kristin E Joos Methodological Considerations Online Focus Groups - D J Reid and F J M Reid An In-Depth Comparison of Computer-Mediated and Conventional Focus Group Discussions Ethics and the Internet - D E DeLorme, G M Zinkhan and W French Issues Associated with Qualitative Research PART FIVE: VISUAL RESEARCH METHODS Meaning and Work - D Harper A Study in Photo Elicitation Visual Data in Applied Qualitative Research - Paul Mason Lessons from Experience Autodriving - D D Heisley and S J Levy A Photoelicitation Technique Photography and Voice in Critical Qualitative Management - Samantha Warren Contrasting Images, Complementary Trajectories - J Wagner Sociology, Visual Sociology and Visual Research Volume Two: Quality Issues in Qualitative Research PART ONE: CRITERIA FOR QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Problems of Reliability and Validity in Ethnographic Research - M D LeCompte and J P Goetz Farewell to Criteriology - T Schwandt Evolving Guidelines for Publications of Qualitative Research Studies in Psychology and Related Fields - R Elliott, C T Fischer and D L Rennie Dilemmas in Qualitative Health Research - L Yardley Myth 94 - A Sparkes Qualitative Health Researchers Will Agree about Validity Checklists for Improving Rigour in Qualitative Research - R S Barbour A Case of the Tail Wagging the Dog? Premises, Principles and Practices in Qualitative Research - Kathy Charmaz Revisiting the Foundations PART TWO: APPRAISING RESEARCH PROPOSALS A Review Committee′s Guide for Evaluating Qualitative Proposals - J M Morse Writing the Proposal for a Qualitative Research Methodology Project - M Sandelowski and J Barroso PART THREE: AUDITING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Use of an Audit in Violence Prevention Research - Elizabeth Hite Erwin, Aleta Meyer and Natalie McClain Expert Qualitative Researchers and the Use of Audit Trails - J R Cutcliffe and H P McKenna PART FOUR: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND QUALITY CRITERIA Rationale and Standards for Systematic Review of Qualitative Literature in Health Services Research - J Popay et al The Problem of Appraising Qualitative Research - M Dixon-Woods et al Critically Appraising Qualitative Research for Systematic Reviews - Pamela Attree and Beth Milton Defusing the Methodological Cluster Bombs Synthesis through Meta-Ethnography - Lynn H Doyle Paradoxes, Enhancements and Possibilities Qualitative Metasynthesis - Sally Thorne et al Reflections on Methodological Orientation and Ideological Agenda A Meta-Analysis of Workplace Ethnographies - Randy Hodson Race, Gender and Employee Attitudes and Behavior Systematically Reviewing Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence to Inform Management and Policy Making in the Health Field - N Mays, C Pope and J Popay PART FIVE: THEORY AND GENERALIZATION AS OUTCOMES OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH What Counts as Theory in Qualitative Management and Accounting Research? Introducing Five Levels of Theorizing - S Llewellyn Interpretivism and Generalization - M Williams Volume Three: Issues of Representation, Realism and Reflexivity PART ONE: REPRESENTATION Issues of Representation within Qualitative Inquiry - Stefanos Mantzoukas After Methods, the Story - Arthur W Frank From Incongruity to Truth in Qualitative Research Revisits - M Burawoy An Outline of a Reflexive Theory of Ethnography PART TWO: REFLEXIVE ACCOUNTS Reflexive Accounts and Accounts of Reflexivity in Qualitative Data Analysis - Natasha S Mauthner and Andrea Doucet Athlete and Researcher - Ann Macphail Undertaking and Pursuing an Ethnographic Study in a Sports Club Working-Class Identities in the 1960s - M Savage Revisiting the Affluent Worker Study Ten Tips for Reflexive Bracketing - Kathryn J Ahern The Ambivalent Practices of Reflexivity - Bronwyn Davies et al Ethics, Reflexivity and ′Ethically Important Moments′ in Research - Marilys Guillemin and Lynn Gillam PART THREE: AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC REFLECTIONS Blurred Genres and Blended Voices - C B Brettell Life History, Biography, Autobiography and the Auto/Ethnography of Women′s Lives Finding the Limits - Geoffrey Walford Autoethnography and Being an Oxford University Proctor PART FOUR: REFLEXIVE VIEWPOINTS ON THE QUALITATIVE RESEARCHER INTERVIEW The Reflexive Interview and a Performative Social Science Qualitative Research - Norman K Denzin From the Interviewer′s Perspective - R Feld Interviewing Women as Conscientious Objectors Creating the Interviewer - C M Cassell Identity Work in the Management Research Process Beyond Neopositivists, Romantics and Localists - M Alvesson A Reflexive Approach to Interviews in Organizational Research After the Interview - C A B Warren et al PART FIVE: ISSUES AROUND THE QUANTITATIVE-QUALITATIVE DIVIDE Strategies for Bridging the Quantitative and Qualitative Divide - J H Laub and R J Sampson Studying Crime over the Life Course Paradigm Peace and the Implications for Quality - A Bryman Mixing Methods in a Qualitatively Driven Way - J Mason Mixed Methods Research - L Giddings Positivism Dressed in Drag? Volume Four: Qualitative Data Analysis PART ONE: GENERAL ISSUES IN ANALYSIS Qualitative Data as an Attractive Nuisance - M B Miles The Virtues of Closet Qualitative Research - R I Sutton Constructing Qualitatively Derived Theory - Janice M Morse Concept Construction and Concept Typologies Grounded Theory - D Walker and F Myrick An Exploration of Process and Procedure Maximizing Transparency in a Doctoral Thesis 1 - Joy D Bringer, Lynne H Johnston and Celia H Brackenridge The Complexities of Writing about the Use of QSR·NVivo within a Grounded Theory Study PART TWO: IDENTIFYING CONTENT THEMES Techniques to Identify Themes - G W Ryan and H R Bernard Three Approaches to Qualitative Content Analysis - H-F Hsieh and S E Shannon Thematic Networks - Jennifer Attride-Stirling An Analytic Tool for Qualitative Research PART THREE: ANALYZING FOCUS GROUP DATA ′It Was Fun... But We Don′t Usually Talk about These Things′ - Deborah J Warr Analyzing Sociable Interaction in Focus Groups Getting the Focus and the Group - Pamela S Kidd and Mark B Parshall Enhancing Analytical Rigor in Focus Group Research PART FOUR: NARRATIVE AND NARRATIVE ANALYSIS Models of Narrative Analysis - E G Mishler A Typology Chronicles from the Classroom - Ann I Rogan and Dorothea M de Kock Making Sense of the Methodology and Methods of Narrative Analysis Narrative Survey - A Shkedi A Methodology for Studying Multiple Populations Narrative, Organizations and Research - C Rhodes and A D Brown PART FIVE: DISCOURSE ANALYSIS Discourse Analysis and Discursive Psychology - J Potter Varieties of Discourse - M Alvesson and D Karreman On the Study of Organizations through Discourse Analysis Using Narrative and Discourse Analysis in Researching Co-Principalships - M Court Whose Text? Whose Context? - E A Schegloff Whose Terms? Whose Ordinariness? Rhetoric and Ideology in Conversation Analysis - M Billig