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Zusatztext The book is a wonderful collection of chapters that together cover most of the innovative approaches! methodologies and analyses in the paradigm of qualitative research. Both novice and senior researchers in social sciences and education can benefit a lot from this diversity and improve their research design considerably. Likewise! students in courses of research methods can enrich their skills and competencies in data collection and analysis of all kinds. Informationen zum Autor Patricia Leavy! PhD! is a leading researcher! acclaimed author and public speaker. She has published a dozen non-fiction books including the best-seller Method Meets Art: Arts-Based Research Practice! Essentials of Transdisciplinary Research: Using Problem-Centered Methodologies! Fiction as Research Practice and Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research as well as two academic novels! American Circumstance and Low-Fat Love. She isthe editor for four book series! is frequently called on by the media! has appeared on national television and radio! and is a blogger for The Huffington Post. The New England Sociological Association named Leavy the 2010 New England Sociologist of the Year and she has been nominated for a lifetime achievement award by theInternational Congress of Qualitative Inquiry and a Special Achievement award by the American Creativity Association. Klappentext This book presents a comprehensive and student-friendly overview of the field of qualitative research and is intended for students of all levels! faculty! and researchers across the social sciences. It provides strong focus on methods instruction with coverage of theoretical approaches! analysis! writing! evaluation! and the politics of research. Zusammenfassung This book presents a comprehensive and student-friendly overview of the field of qualitative research and is intended for students of all levels, faculty, and researchers across the social sciences. It provides strong focus on methods instruction with coverage of theoretical approaches, analysis, writing, evaluation, and the politics of research. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Patricia Leavy; 1. Introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research; Patricia Leavy; Part One: The Qualitative Tradition; 2. Historical Overview of Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences; Svend Brinkmann! Michael Hviid Jacobsen! and Soren Kristiansen; 3. Philosophical Approaches to Qualitative Research; Renee Spencer! Julia M. Pryce! and Jill Walsh; 4. The Centrality of Ethics in Qualitative Research; Anna Traianou; 5. Applied Interpretive Approaches; Sally E. Thorne; 6. Feminist Qualitative Research: Toward Transformation of Science and Society; Maureen C. McHugh; 7. Critical Approaches to Qualitative Research; Kum-Kum Bhavnani! Peter Chua! and Dana Collins; 8. De-Colonizing Research Practice: Indigenous Methodologies! Aboriginal Methods! and Knowledge/Knowing; Mike Evans! Adrian Miller! Peter Hutchinson! and Carlene Dingwall; Part Two: Field Research and Interview Methods; 9. Ethnography; Anthony Kwame Harrison; 10. The Purposes! Practices! and Principles of Autoethnographic Research; Carolyn Ellis and Tony E. Adams; 11. Museum Studies; Erica L. Tucker; 12. Practicing Narrative Inquiry; Arthur P. Bochner and Nicholas A. Riggs; 13. Unstructured and Semi-Structured Interviewing; Svend Brinkmann; 14. Oral History Interviewing: Issues and Possibilities; Valerie J. Janesick; 15. Focus Group Research: Retrospect and Prospect; George Kamberelis and Greg Dimitriadis; 16. The Grounded Theory Method; Antony Bryant; Part Three: Unobtrusive Methods; 17. Photography as a Research Method; Gunilla Holm; 18. Arts-Based Research Practice: Merging Social Research and the Creative Arts; Gioia Chilton and Patricia Leavy; 19. Qualitative Approaches in Internet-mediated Research: Opportunities! Issues! Possibilities; Claire Hewson; 20. Comparative-Historical Method...
