Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials

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.

• 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. Methods of Collecting and Analyzing Empirical Materials2. Narrative Inquiry: Still a Field in the Making - Susan E. Chase3. Critical Arts-based Inquiry: The Pedagogy and Performance of a Radical Ethical Aesthetic - Susan Finley4. Oral History - Linda Shopes5. Observations on Observation: Continuities and Challenges - Michael Angrosino and Judith Rosenberg6. Visual Methodology: Toward a More Seeing Research - Jon D. Prosser7. Performative Autoethnography: Critical Embodiments and Possibilities - Tami Spry8. The Methods, Politics, and Ethics of Representation in Online Ethnography - Sarah Gaston9. Analyzing Talk and Text - Anssi Parakyla and Johanna Ruusuvuori10. Focus Groups: Contingent Articulations of Pedagogy, Politics, and Inquiry - George Kamberelis and Greg DimitriadisII. The Art and Practices of Interpretation, Evaluation, and Presentation11. Qualitative Research, Science, and Government: Evidence, Criteria, Policy, and Politics - Harry Torrance12. Reflections on Interpretive Adequacy in Qualitative Research - David L. Altheide and John M. Johnson13. Analysis and Representation Across the Continuum - Laura L. Ellingson14. Post Qualitative Research: The Critique and the Coming After - Elisabeth Adams St. Pierre15. Qualitative Research and Technology: In the Midst of a Revolution - Judith Davidson and Silvana diGregorio16. The Elephant in the Living Room, or Extending the Conversation About the Politics of Evidence - Norman K. Denzin17. Writing into Position: Strategies for Composition and Evaluation - Ronald J. Pelias18. Evaluation as a Relationally Responsible Practice - Tineke Abma and Guy A.M. Widdershoven, Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. LincolnAuthor IndexSubject Index

Very useful book for qualitative data dissertation research.