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Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780205117260 | 0205117260
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Inc.Pub. Date: 1/1/1989
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| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Quantitative versus Qualitative Schools of Thought | |
| Use of Triangulation Research Methodology | |
| Qualitative Strategies: Defining an Orientation | |
| From a Symbolic Interactionist Perspective | |
| Why Use Qualitative Methods? | |
| A Plan of Presentation | |
| Designing Qualitative Research | |
| Theory and Co... MORE | |
| Ideas and Theory | |
| Reviewing the Literature | |
| Theory, Reality, and the Social World | |
| Framing Research Problems | |
| Operationalization and Conceptualization | |
| Designing Projects | |
| Data Collection and Organization | |
| Data Storage, Retrieval, and Analysis | |
| Dissemination | |
| Ethical Issues | |
| Research Ethics in Historical Perspective | |
| From Guidelines to Law: Regulations on the Research Process | |
| Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) | |
| Ethical Codes | |
| Some Common Ethical Concerns in Behavioral Research | |
| New Areas for Ethical Concern: Cyberspace | |
| Physical and Ethical Dangers in Covert Research | |
| Informed Consent and Implied Consent | |
| Confidentiality and Anonymity | |
| Securing the Data | |
| Objectivity and Careful Research Design | |
| A Dramaturgical Look at Interviewing | |
| Dramaturgy and Interviewing | |
| Types of Interviews | |
| The Interview Schedule | |
| Schedule Development | |
| Communicating Effectively | |
| A Few Common Problems in Question Formulation | |
| Pretesting the Schedule | |
| Long versus Short Interviews | |
| Telephone Interviews | |
| Computer-Assisted Interviewing | |
| An Unnatural Communication? | |
| The Dramaturgical Interview | |
| The Interviewer's Repertoire | |
| Know Your Audience | |
| Analyzing Data Obtained from the Dramaturgical Interview | |
| Focus Group Interviewing | |
| What Are Focus Group Interviews? | |
| The Evolution of Focus Group Interviews | |
| Advantages and Disadvantages of Focus Group Interviewing | |
| Facilitating Focus Group Dynamics: How Focus Groups Work | |
| The Moderator's Guide | |
| Basic Ingredients in Focus Groups | |
| Confidentiality and Focus Group Interviews | |
| Recent Trends in Focus Groups | |
| Ethnographic Field Strategies | |
| Accessing a Field Setting: Getting In | |
| Reflectivity and Ethnography | |
| Becoming Invisible | |
| Other Dangers During Ethnographic Research | |
| Watching, Listening, and Learning | |
| Computers and Ethnography | |
| Analyzing Ethnographic Data | |
| Other Analysis Strategies: Typologies, Sociograms, and Metaphors | |
| Disengaging: Getting Out | |
| Action Research | |
| The Basics of Action Research | |
| Identifying the Research Question(s) | |
| Gathering the Information to Answer Question(s) | |
| Analyzing and Interpreting the Information | |
| Sharing the Results with the Participants | |
| The Action Researcher's Role | |
| Types of Action Research | |
| Photovoice and Action Research | |
| Unobtrusive Measures in Research | |
| Archival Strategies | |
| Physical Erosion and Accretion: Human Traces as Data Sources | |
| Historiography and Oral Traditions | |
| What Is Historical Research? | |
| Life Histories and Historiography | |
| What Are the Sources of Data of Historical Researchers? | |
| Doing Historiography: Tracing Written History as Data | |
| What Are Oral Histories? | |
| Case Studies | |
| The Nature of Case Studies | |
| The Individual Case Study | |
| Intrinsic, Instrumental, and Collective Case Studies | |
| Case Study Design Types | |
| The Scientific Benefit of Case Studies | |
| Case Studies of Organizations | |
| Case Studies of Communities | |
| An Introduction to Content Analysis | |
| Analysis of Qualitative Data | |
| Content Analysis as a Technique | |
| Content Analysis: Quantitative or Qualitative? | |
| Communication Components | |
| What to Count: Levels and Units of Analysis | |
| Category Development: Building Grounded Theory | |
| Open Coding | |
| Coding Frames | |
| Stages in the Content Analysis Process | |
| Strengths and Weaknesses of the Content Analysis Process | |
| Computers and Qualitative Analysis | |
| Qualitative Research at the Speed of Light | |
| Writing Research Papers: Sorting the Noodles from the Soup | |
| Identifying the Purpose of the Writing: Arranging the Noodles | |
| Delineating a Supportive Structure: Visual Signals for the Reader | |
| Presenting Research Material | |
| A Word About the Content of Papers and Articles | |
| Write It, Rewrite It, Then Write It Again! | |
| A Final Note | |
| Name Index | |
| Subject Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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