What is qualitative research? / / Martyn Hammersley.
This book invites readers to explore the nature of qualitative research, and to recognise the varied and conflicting forms it can take. It examines how these contrast with quantitative work, as well as how they differ from journalism and imaginative literature. The book describes various methodologi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | 'What is?' research methods series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (136 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Series foreword; Preface; 1 Defining qualitative research; The contrast with quantitative research; Methods or paradigms?; A different contrast; Summary; 2 Methodological philosophies; Positivism; Interpretivism; The 'critical' tradition; Constructionism; Summary; 3 Divergent analytic styles; Identifying causes; Methods used; Criticisms; Investigating experience; Methods used; Criticisms; Penetrating fronts; Methods used; Criticisms; Documenting constitutive practices; Methods used; Criticisms; Relationships among the four orientations; 4 Two methodological disputes
- The 'radical critique' of interviewsCommentaries on Potter and Hepburn's article and their response; Reflections on the dispute; The critique of urban ethnography; Background to the dispute; Wacquant's critique; Identifying the grounds of disagreement; Conclusion; Conclusion; References; Index; NAME INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; SUBJECT INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V