Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry

Norman K. Denzin was Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. One of the world’s foremost authorities on qualitative research and cultural criticism, he was the author or editor of more than 30 books, including The Qualitative Manifesto; Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire; Reading Race; Interpretive Ethnography; The Cinematic Society; The Alcoholic Self; and a trilogy on the American West. He was past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, co-editor of six editions of the landmark SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, co-editor (with Michael D. Giardina) of 18 books on qualitative inquiry, co-editor (with Yvonna S. Lincoln and Michael D. Giardina) of the methods journal Qualitative Inquiry, founding editor of Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies and International Review of Qualitative Research, editor of four book series, and founding director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Yvonna S. Lincoln is Professor Emerita at Texas A&M University, where she held the Ruth Harrington Chair of Educational Leadership and was Distinguished Professor of Higher Education. She is the coeditor of the journal Qualitative Inquiry, coeditor of the first through six editions of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, and coeditor of The SAGE Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies. As well, she is the coauthor, editor, or coeditor of more than a half dozen other books and volumes. She has served as the President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education and the American Evaluation Research Association, and as the Vice President for Division J (Postsecondary Education) for the American Educational Research Association. She is the author of coauthor of more than 100 chapters and journal articles on aspects of higher education or qualitative research methods and methodologies.

This book is the second of three paperback volumes taken from the Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research (fourth edition). It presents individually and historically the major strategies and research methods that researchers can use in conducting concrete qualitative studies.

• Preface - Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. LincolnAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors1. Introduction: The Discipline and Practice of Qualitative Research - Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. LincolnI. Strategies of Inquiry2. The Politics and Practices of Funding Qualitative Inquiry: Messages About Messages About Messges - Julianne Cheek3. Controversies in Mixed Methods Research - John W. Creswell4. Mixed Methods Research: Contemporary Issues in an Emerging Field - Charles Teddlie and Abbus Tashakkori5. Case Study - Bent Flyvbjerg6. Performance Ethnography - Judith Hamera7. Braiding Narrative Ethnography with Memoir and Creative Nonfiction - Barbara Tedlock8. The Constructionist Analytics of Interpretive Practice - James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium9. Grounded Theory Methods in Social Justice Research - Kathy Charmaz10. In the Name of Human Rights: I say (how) you (should) speak (before I listen) - Antjie Krog11. Jazz and the Banyan Tree: Roots and Riffs on Participatory Action Research - Mary Brydon-Miller, Michael Kral, Patricia Maguire, Susan Noffke and Anu Sabhlok12. What is Qualitative Health Research? - Janice M. MorseAuthor IndexSubject Index