What is Qualitative Research?

AvMartyn Hammersley,Graham Crow

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.This book invites readers to explore the nature of qualitative research, and to recognise the varied and conflicting forms it can take. It examines how these contrast with quantitative work, as well as how they differ from journalism and imaginative literature. The book describes various methodological philosophies that have shaped qualitative work, as well as different types of orientation to be found within it today. It offers clear definitions of key terms and concepts, and also a detailed exploration of recent disputes among qualitative researchers, with a view to showing how differences in practice relate to underlying commitments. This book will be a vital resource for both new and experienced researchers.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-11-08
Mått:156 x 234 x 11 mm
Vikt:308 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:'What is?' Research Methods Series
Antal sidor:144
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781780933351

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Martyn Hammersley is Professor of Educational and Social Research in the Centre for Childhood, Development and Learning at The Open University, UK. His books include Taking Sides in Social Research (1999), Questioning Qualitative Inquiry (2008), and Methodology, Who Needs It? (2011).

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Qualitative research has become a vast and complex approach to understanding social life, riddled with diversity and debate. Martyn Hammersley has, in this short text, managed to introduce all of this complexity and diversity without baffling the reader. It is an inspiring and exciting text, full of relevant examples illustrating the diversity of qualitative research today. Written by an undoubted authority in the field, this accessible book should whet the appetite of any would-be qualitative researcher.

Innehållsförteckning

Contents PrefaceChapter 1 Defining qualitative research Chapter 2 Methodological philosophiesChapter 3 Divergent analytic stylesChapter 4 Two methodological disputes Conclusion References