Doing and writing qualitative research /

Holliday, Adrian.

Doing and writing qualitative research / Adrian Holliday. - 2nd edition - London ; Thousand Oaks ; New Delhi : SAGE, 2007. - xiv, 199 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

1 Approaching Qualitative Research
Qualitative and quantitative
Schools and approaches
Write a stranger
Summary

2 Starting out
Researching everyday life
Determining the area
Establishing a research question
Defining the research strategy
Summary

3 Showing the workings
Introductions
Conceptual framework
Describing procedures
Significance of research strategy
Articulating issues
Summary

4 What counts as data
Overview of qualitative data
Artefacts revealing the unfamiliar
Arising from social settings
Approaching thick description
etc.

5 Writing about data
From data to written study
Organizing and presenting data
Degrees of explicitness
Preserving original richness
etc.

6 Writer voice
The struggle with convention
New thinking
The author writes back
Creating coherence
Personal orientation, history and narrative
etc.

7 Writing about relations
Reflexivity
The small culture of dealing
Setting up relations
Establishing relations
Behaving appropriately
etc.

8 Making appropriate claims
Allowing ordinary voice
Cautious detachment
Suspending judgement
People in relationships
Summary

References : p. 189 - 195 . -- Index : p. 196 - 199

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Social sciences--Research.
Qualitative research.

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