A new edition of Qualitative Research reflects its importance in the field, demonstrated by the 11000 citations of previous iterations. This sixth edition offers a newly updated introduction to cutting edge issues, written by leading scholars in our field. Chapters from the fifth edition have been revised and updated by their distinguished authors. In addition, reflecting the changing face of qualitative research in a digital age, five new chapters have been added: Narrative ethnography [Gubrium, Holstein and Marvasti] Document analysis [Lewis and Atkinson] Analysing online data [Giles] Using AI in qualitative analysis [Schmieder] Ways of working with Visual and Online Data [Danby]. This new edition addresses what is missing from the methodology sections of many published journal articles, As Richard Fitzgerald has pointed out: 'The actual work of doing research is often sanitized or hidden in 'method reports'. This collection aims to supply what Fitzgerald calls the 'missing what' of research. It also offers a very different take on the nature of qualitative research [QR] from that found in many other articles and textbooks. We argue that: QR is a theoretically driven enterprise QR complements quantitative research in particular by entering into the 'black box' of how social phenomena [including interviews and focus groups] are constituted in real time QR is as much about social practices as about experience QR is, or should be, a credible, rigorous enterprise. As an edited book, this is ideal for final year students, as well as people beginning masters and doctoral programmes. The most comprehensive qualitative research book available, it is the perfect all-in-one companion for any student embarking on a qualitative research course or project. It introduces students to the big picture of qualitative research, teaching both the 'why' and the 'how to' of getting started, selecting a method and conducting research and data analysis. It is written by world experts of the highest calibre who are upfront about their analytic positions, but distilled into an accessible language and format for beginning researchers who will soon be tackling their own research study, whether at an undergraduate or postgraduate level. The particular added value of Qualitative Research is that it gives you an entree into qualitative methods from leading experts in the field who address the needs of students who need to brush up their research skills prior to their own research projects.
David Silverman trained as a sociologist at the London School of Economics and the University of California, Los Angeles. He taught for 32 years at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he is now Emeritus Professor in the Sociology Department as well as Visiting Professor in the Business Schools, King's College, London, Leeds University and University of Technology Sydney and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology. He is interested in conversation and discourse analysis and he has researched medical consultations, shelters for homeless people and HIV-test counselling. He is the author of Doing Qualitative Research (sixth edition, 2022) and A Very Short, Fairly Interesting, Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research (second edition, 2013c). He is the editor of Qualitative Research (fifth edition, 2021) and the Sage series Introducing Qualitative Methods. In recent years, he has offered short, hands-on workshops in qualitative research for universities in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Now retired from full-time work, he aims to watch 100 days of county cricket a year. He also enjoys spending time with his grandchildren and great-grandsons as well as voluntary work in an old people's home where he chats and sings with residents.
Part I: Setting The Scene Chapter 1: Introducing Qualitative Research David Silverman Chapter 2: Addressing Social Problems through Qualitative Research Ross Koppel and Joel Telles Chapter 3: Ethics and qualitative research Anne Ryen Part II: Interviews And Focus Groups Chapter 4: The 'Inside' and the 'Outside': Finding Realities in Interviews Jody Miller and Barry Glassner Chapter 5: Interviewing as a form of Narrative Practice James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium Chapter 6: Analysing Focus Group Data Sue Wilkinson Part III: Ethnography Chapter 7: Ethnographic Practices: Theory, Method, Trends Erika Cellini and Giampietro Gobo Chapter 8: Organizational Ethnography Thomas Eberle and Christoph Maeder Chapter 9: Practising Reflexivity in Ethnography Marie Buscatto Part IV: Texts Chapter 10: Analysing Documents through Fieldwork Katarina Jacobsson Chapter 11: Documents and Documentation Jamie Lewis and Paul Atkinson Part V: Talk Chapter 12: Discursive Psychology - cognition and emotion in interaction Jonathan Chapter 13: Conversation Analysis: Practices and Methods John Heritage Part VI: Expanding Technologies Chapter 14: Analysing online data David C. Giles Chapter 15: Using CDA on internet data Johann W. Unger, Ruth Wodak and Majid Khosravinik Chapter 16: Researchers and Machines: Navigating the methodologically responsible use of Artificial Intelligence Tools in Data Analysis Christian Schmieder Part VII: Visual Data Chapter 17: Analysing visual data Susan Danby and Michael Emmison Chapter 18: Video and the Analysis of Social Interaction Christian Heath Part VIII: Qualitative Data Analysis Chapter 19: Some pragmatics of qualitative data analysis Tim Rapley Chapter 20: Multimethod Qualitative Research Nanna Mik-Meyer Chapter 21: Constructing Grounded Theory Analyses Anthony Bryant and Kathy Charmaz Chapter 22: Narrative ethnography and Everyday Storytelling Jaber Gubrium, James Holstein and Amir Marvasti Chapter 23: Systematic reviews and qualitative methods Mary Dixon-Woods Chapter 24: Secondary analysis of qualitative data Libby Bishop Chapter 25: Validity in research Anssi Peraekylae Chapter 26: The three faces of writing qualitative research: practice, genre and audience Amir Marvasti
