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Qualitative Research Methods 4th Edition provides an accessible, practical guide to conducting and analysing qualitative research. This multidisciplinary text uses relevant and engaging examples to explain methodological issues, and shows how to use established, innovative and complex methods of research effectively.New to this edition:New chapter: Conducting Cross-cultural Research QualitativelyMore criminology examples throughout the bookUpdated examples. This title will also be available as an e-book in November 2012.

Pranee Liamputtong holds a position of Personal Chair in Public Health at the School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne. She has previously taught in the School of Sociology and Anthropology and worked as a public health research fellow at the Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University.

PART 1 BACKGROUND TO QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
1 Methodological Frameworks and Sampling in Qualitative Research
2 Rigour and Ethics in Qualitative Research
PART 2 TYPES OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS
3 The In-depth Interviewing Method
4 Focus Groups
5 Unobtrusive Methods
6 Narrative Enquiry Methodology: Life and Oral History, Life Story and Biographical Research
7 Memory-work
8 Ethnography
9 Participatory Action Research
10 Qualitative Case Study Research
11 Grounded Theory Research
PART 3 MANAGING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
12 Making Sense of Qualitative Data: The Analysis Process
13 Writing a Qualitative Research Proposal
14 Writing a Qualitative Research Report
PART 4 APPLICATIONS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
15 Researching the 'Vulnerable'
16 Conducting Cross-Cultural Research Qualitatively
17 Going Online: Doing Qualitative Research in Cyberspace
18 Qualitative Research: New Directions
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References
Index

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Qualitative Research Methods, Fourth Edition

Qualitative Research Methods, Fourth Edition

0195518551

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