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Doing and writing qualitative research / Adrian Holliday.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2002.Description: xi, 211 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. ; pbkISBN:
  • 076196391X
  • 9780761963912
  • 0761963928
  • 9780761963929
  • 9780761963912:
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 300.72
Contents:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-207) and index.

[Part 1: Approaching Qualitative Research] Qualitative and quantitative -- Managing subjectivity -- Schools and approaches -- Writer as stranger.

[Part 2: Starting Out] Researching everyday life -- Determining the area -- Establishing a research question -- Defining the research setting.

[Part 3: Showing the Workings] Conceptual framework -- Explaining procedures -- Significance of research strategy -- Articulating issues.

[Part 4: What Counts as Data] Overview of qualitative data -- Arising from social settings -- Thick description -- Approaching thick description --Making the familiar strange.

[Part 5: Writing about Data] From data to written study -- Organizing and presenting data -- Embedding data in the argument -- Keeping things separate -- Caution.

[Part 6: Writer Voice] The struggle with convention -- New thinking -- The author writes back -- Creating coherence -- Achieving credibility.

[Part 7: Writing about Relations] Reflexivity -- The culture of dealing -- Setting up relations -- Establishing relations -- Behaving appropriately --Using experience as data -- Disciplined learning.

[Part 8: Making Appropriate Claims] Allowing 'ordinary' voice -- Cautious detachment -- Suspending judgment -- People in relationships.

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