SAGE Qualitative Research Methods

Paul Atkinson is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University. Recent publications include For Ethnography (SAGE 2014) and Thinking Ethnographically (SAGE 2017). The fourth book in his quartet will be Crafting Ethnography, also for SAGE. The fourth edition of Hammersley and Atkinson Ethnography: Principles in Practice was published by Routledge in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and of the Learned Society of Wales. Dr Sara Delamont, DSc Econ, AcSS. read Social Anthropology at Girton College Cambridge, did her PhD at Edinburgh, and lectured at Leicester before moving to Cardiff in 1976. She was the first woman to be President of BERA (the British Education Research Association) and the first woman Dean of Social Sciences at Cardiff. She has done ethnographies in schools, and other settings where teaching and learning take place such as operatic master classes and martial arts studios. With Paul Atkinson she is the Founding Editor of Qualitative Research, and is the author of fourteen books.

• VOLUME ONEEditorial Introduction - Paul Atkinson and Sara DelamontA Stranger at the Gate - Nels AndersonThe Past and the Future of Ethnography - Patricia Adler and Peter Adler Ethnography: Post, Past and Present - Paul Atkinson, Amanda Coffey and Sara Delamont The Interactional Study of Organisation - Robert Dingwall and Phil Strong Linking Data (extract) - Nigel Fielding and Jane FieldingTowards A Peopled Ethnography - Gary Alan FineBeyond Groups - Japonica Brown-Saracino, Jessica Thurk and Gary Alan Fine Participant Observation in the Era of ′Ethnography′ - Herbert Gans On Fieldwork - Erving Goffman Erving Goffman′s Sociological Legacies - John LoflandAnalyzing Field Reality (extract) - Jaber GubriumAccessing, waiting, plunging in, and writing: retrospective sense-making of fieldwork - Peter MagoldaExchange and Access in Field Work - Paul GrayFrom How to Why: On Luminous Description Pt 1 - Jack KatzFrom How to Why: On Luminous Description Pt 2 - Jack KatzReminiscences of Classic Chicago: The Blumer-Hughes Talk - Lyn LoflandTowards a Critical Ethnography: A re-examination of the Chicago legacy - Jim Thomas Everett C. Hughes and the Development of Fieldwork in Sociology - Jean-Michel Chapoulie A Meta-Ethnographic Approach and The Freeman Refutation of Mead - George Noblit and R. Dwight HareVOLUME TWOStability and Flexibility - Patricia Adler and Peter Adler Ethnographic Evidence - Michael AgarThe Hired Hand and the Lone Wolf: Issues in the use of Observers in Large-Scale Program Evaluation - Carl Florez and George KellingFour Ways to Improve the Craft of Fieldwork - Robert Emerson′Déjà Entendu′: The Liminal Qualities of Anthropological Fieldnotes - Jean Jackson Photostudy - Alan Radley and Diane Taylor Educational Ethnography as Performance Art: Towards a Sensuous Feeling and Knowing - Carl Bagley Discipline and the Material Form of Images - Michael Lynch Understanding Urban Life: The Chicago legacy - Lyn Lofland Street Phenomenology: The Go-Along as Ethnographic Research Tool - Margarethe Kusenbach "Just another Native?" Soundscapes, Chorasters, and Borderlands in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada - Brett LashuaDoing Research in Cyberspace - David Jacobson How I Learned What a Crock Was - Howard BeckerTen Lies of Ethnography: Moral Dilemmas of Field Research - Gary Alan Fine Problems in the Field: Participant Observation and the Assumption of Neutrality - Jeffrey Cohen Collecting Data from Elites and Ultra-Elites - Neil Stephens The Ubiquity of Ambiguity in Research Interviewing: An Exemplar - Cynthia Cannon Poindexter Referencing as Persuasion - Nigel Gilbert Contradictions of Feminist Methods - Sherry Gorelick Jurors′ Use of Judges′ Instructions - James HolsteinVOLUME THREENotes on the Nature and Development of General Theories - Anselm StraussGrounded Theory Method - Merilyn AnnellsAnalytic Ordering for Theoretical Purposes - Juliet Corbin and Anselm StraussRediscovering Glaser - Kath MeliaGrounded Theory: Evolving Methods - Linda RobrechtPremises, Principles and Practices in Qualitative Research: Revisiting the Foundations - Kathy CharmazTwo Cases of Ethnography: Grounded Theory and the Extended Case Method - Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans Five Misunderstandings about Case-Study Research - Bent FlyberrgThe Personal is Political - Sherryl KleinmanQualitative Data Analysis - Amanda Coffey, Beverly Holbrook and Paul AtkinsonA Comment on Coffey et al - Raymond Lee and Neil Fielding The Art(fulness) of Open-Ended Interviewing: Some Consdiderations on Analysing Interviews - Timothy John RapleyDoing Narrative Analysis - Catherine RiessmanNarrative Turn or Blind Alley? - Paul AtkinsonNarrative in Social Work: A Critical Review - Catherin Kohler Riessman and Lee QuinneyThe Use of Discovery Accounts - S. W. Woolgar Beyond the ′Fetichism of Words′: Considerations on the use of the Interview to Gather Chronic Illness Narratives - Nathan Miczo′When Discourse is Torn from Reality′: Bakhtin and the Principle of Chronotopicity - Stuart AllanHaving, and Being had by, "Experience": Or, "Experience in the Social Sciences after the Discursive/Poststructuralist Turn" - Bronwyn Davies and Cristyn DaviesImmersion vs. Analytic Ideals and Appendix - Sherryl Kleinman and Martha Copp(No) Trial (but) Tribulations: When Courts and Ethnography Conflict - Rik ScarceVOLUME FOURWhose Side Was Becker On? - Martyn HammersleyHanding IRB an Unloaded Gun - Carol RamboEthics and the Practice of Qualitative Research - Ian Shaw′Becoming Participant′: Problematizing ′Informed Consent′ in Participatory Research with Young People in Care - Emma Renold, Sally Holland, Nicola Ross, and Alexandra HillmanResearching Researchers: Lessons for Research Ethics - Rose Wiles, Vikki Charles, Graham Crow and Sue HeathReembodying Qualitative Inquiry - Margarete SandelowskiGender, Disembodiment and Vocation: Exploring the Unmentionables of British Academic Life - David Mills and Mette Louise BergEthnographying Public Memory: The Commemorative Genre for the Victims of Terrorism in Italy - Anna Lisa TotaUnsettling Engagements - Charles Fruehling Springwood and C. Richard King Data Presentation and the Audience - Carol WarrenCan We Re-Use Qualitative Data Via Secondary Analysis? Notes on some Terminological and Substantive Issues - Martyn Hammersley(Re)Using Qualitative Data? - Niamh MooreWhose Cornerville is it, anyway? - Norman DenzinTrash on the Corner - Laurel RichardsonThe Gold Coast and the Slum Revisited: Paradoxes in Replication Research and the Study of Social Change - Albert HunterMethods of Writing Patriarchy - Dorothy SmithAnalytic Autoethnography - Leon AndersonComments on Setting Criteria for Experimental Writing - Patricia Ticineto CloughKnowing your Place: Gender and Reflexivity in two Ethnographies - Fiona Gill and Catherine MacleanStorying Schools: Issues around Attempts to Create a Sense of Feel and Place in Narrative Research Writing - Pat SikesFeminist Ethnography: Storytelling that Makes a Difference - Patricia McNamaraQuality Issues in Qualitative Inquiry - Clive SealeEmerging Criteria for Quality in Qualitative and Interpretive Inquiry - Yvonna LincolnNew Methods, Old Problems: A Sceptical View of Innovation in Qualitative Research - Max Travers