Gubrium and Holstein have done us a service in revisiting and updating hte ontological and epistemological assumptions of varieties of qualitative research...will be valuable for postgraduate courses in the philosophy of social research and qualitative methods. A book which attempts to bring qualitative methods into contemporary debates about epistemology is to be recommended, and it offers considerable material to enable the reader to evaluate their own form ofqualitative research practice. - Barbara Harrison. Sociology. Vol 32. 1998.

• Introduction 1.: Method Talk -- Varieties of Method Talk; Common Threads; Leading Questions Part I: Idioms of Qualitative Inquiry 2.: Naturalism -- "Being There"; "Their Worlds"; "Their Own Stories"; A Tradition of Guidelines 3.: Ethnomethodology -- The Roots of Ethnomethodology; Bracketing Social Realities; Etnomethodological Description; The Talk of How 4.: Emotionalism -- The Tone of Emotionalist Talk; A Field of Emotion; Creative Interviewing; The Emotional Fieldworker; Reenacting Emotionality 5.: Postmodernism -- Expressions of Postmodernism; Studying Cinematic Society; Psychoanalytic Reading; Confronting the Crisis of Representation; Postmodernistic Representation Part II: Renewing the Language: 6.: Analytic Choices -- Where Do We Go From Home?; At the Lived Border of Reality and Representation; Enduring Risks; What Are the Options?; Choosing an Analytic Vocabulary; Analyzing Interpretive Practice; 7.: The "Artful" Side of Interpretive Practice -- Conversational Structure and Interactional Competencies; Constitutive Description; Narrative Practice; 8.: Condition of Interpretation -- Goffman as a Point of Departure; Contingencies of Circumstance; Interpretive Resources; Local Culture; Institutional Sites/Sights of Local Culture; The Comparative Ethnography of Interpretive Practice; 9.: Explanation and Deprivatization -- Emerging Explanatory Footings; Deprivatization and Interpretation; Diversity and Deprivatization; Reflexively Reasserting the Common Threads

Gubrium and Holstein have done us a service in revisiting and updating hte ontological and epistemological assumptions of varieties of qualitative research...will be valuable for postgraduate courses in the philosophy of social research and qualitative methods. A book which attempts to bring qualitative methods into contemporary debates about epistemology is to be recommended, and it offers considerable material to enable the reader to evaluate their own form ofqualitative research practice. - Barbara Harrison. Sociology. Vol 32. 1998.

• Introduction 1.: Method Talk -- Varieties of Method Talk; Common Threads; Leading Questions Part I: Idioms of Qualitative Inquiry 2.: Naturalism -- "Being There"; "Their Worlds"; "Their Own Stories"; A Tradition of Guidelines 3.: Ethnomethodology -- The Roots of Ethnomethodology; Bracketing Social Realities; Etnomethodological Description; The Talk of How 4.: Emotionalism -- The Tone of Emotionalist Talk; A Field of Emotion; Creative Interviewing; The Emotional Fieldworker; Reenacting Emotionality 5.: Postmodernism -- Expressions of Postmodernism; Studying Cinematic Society; Psychoanalytic Reading; Confronting the Crisis of Representation; Postmodernistic Representation Part II: Renewing the Language: 6.: Analytic Choices -- Where Do We Go From Home?; At the Lived Border of Reality and Representation; Enduring Risks; What Are the Options?; Choosing an Analytic Vocabulary; Analyzing Interpretive Practice; 7.: The "Artful" Side of Interpretive Practice -- Conversational Structure and Interactional Competencies; Constitutive Description; Narrative Practice; 8.: Condition of Interpretation -- Goffman as a Point of Departure; Contingencies of Circumstance; Interpretive Resources; Local Culture; Institutional Sites/Sights of Local Culture; The Comparative Ethnography of Interpretive Practice; 9.: Explanation and Deprivatization -- Emerging Explanatory Footings; Deprivatization and Interpretation; Diversity and Deprivatization; Reflexively Reasserting the Common Threads

Gubrium and Holstein have done us a service in revisiting and updating hte ontological and epistemological assumptions of varieties of qualitative research...will be valuable for postgraduate courses in the philosophy of social research and qualitative methods. A book which attempts to bring qualitative methods into contemporary debates about epistemology is to be recommended, and it offers considerable material to enable the reader to evaluate their own form ofqualitative research practice. - Barbara Harrison. Sociology. Vol 32. 1998.

• Introduction 1.: Method Talk -- Varieties of Method Talk; Common Threads; Leading Questions Part I: Idioms of Qualitative Inquiry 2.: Naturalism -- "Being There"; "Their Worlds"; "Their Own Stories"; A Tradition of Guidelines 3.: Ethnomethodology -- The Roots of Ethnomethodology; Bracketing Social Realities; Etnomethodological Description; The Talk of How 4.: Emotionalism -- The Tone of Emotionalist Talk; A Field of Emotion; Creative Interviewing; The Emotional Fieldworker; Reenacting Emotionality 5.: Postmodernism -- Expressions of Postmodernism; Studying Cinematic Society; Psychoanalytic Reading; Confronting the Crisis of Representation; Postmodernistic Representation Part II: Renewing the Language: 6.: Analytic Choices -- Where Do We Go From Home?; At the Lived Border of Reality and Representation; Enduring Risks; What Are the Options?; Choosing an Analytic Vocabulary; Analyzing Interpretive Practice; 7.: The "Artful" Side of Interpretive Practice -- Conversational Structure and Interactional Competencies; Constitutive Description; Narrative Practice; 8.: Condition of Interpretation -- Goffman as a Point of Departure; Contingencies of Circumstance; Interpretive Resources; Local Culture; Institutional Sites/Sights of Local Culture; The Comparative Ethnography of Interpretive Practice; 9.: Explanation and Deprivatization -- Emerging Explanatory Footings; Deprivatization and Interpretation; Diversity and Deprivatization; Reflexively Reasserting the Common Threads