Focus Groups As Qualitative Research

From the First Edition:
"Continues the high quality of previously published volumes in the Sage series on qualitative research methods. . . . Useful and instructive. . . . David L. Morgan deals with a number of practical issues concerning the

List of contents

Introduction
Focus Groups as Qualitative Method
The Uses of Focus Groups
Planning and Research Design for Focus Groups
Conducting and Analyzing Focus Groups
Additional Possibilities
Conclusions

About the author

David L. Morgan is a professor emeritus in Department of Sociology at Portland State University. He is a sociological social psychologist, who is widely known for his work on focus groups, including his book, Focus Groups as Qualitative Research, and as coauthor of The Focus Group Kit. In addition, he has worked extensively on mixed methods, including a book for SAGE, Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods. Most recently, he has published Essentials of Dyadic Interviewing for Routledge, and A New Era in Focus Group Research, co-edited, with Rosaline Barbour, for Palgrave.

Summary

Reflecting the many changes that have occurred in the study of focus groups in recent years, this book begins with an introduction offering a discussion of current social science approaches to focus groups.

Product details

• Authors: David Morgan, David L Morgan, David L. Morgan
• Assisted by: David Morgan (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.02.1997
• EAN: 9780761903437
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-0343-7
• No. of pages: 88
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 217 mm x 7 mm
• Series: Qualitative Research Methods; Qualitative Research Methods
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)