Qualitative Research

Alan Bryman is Professor of Organizationaland Social Research, School of Management, Universityof Leicester, UK.

• VOLUME ONE: FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCHPART ONE: PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES The Fundamental Concepts of Sociology - Max WeberWhat Is Wrong with Social Theory? - Herbert BlumerPART TWO: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCHThe Debate about Quantitative and Qualitative Research - Alan BrymanDeconstructing the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide - Martyn HammersleyAttitudes toward Needle `Sharing′ among Injection Drug Users - Robert G Carlson et alCombining Qualitative and Quantitative Research MethodsPART THREE: DEFINING QUALITATIVE RESEARCHReal Men Don′t Collect Soft Data - Silvia Gherardi and Barry TurnerMethod Talk - Jaber F Gubrium and James A HolsteinPART FOUR: RESEARCH DESIGNBuilding Theories from Case Study Research - Kathleen M EisenhardtWhat Can Case Studies Do? - Jennifer PlattCase and Situation Analysis - J Clyde MitchellPART FIVE: THE RESEARCH PROCESSLibrary Access, Library Use and User Education in Academic Sixth Forms - Lawrence StenhouseAn Autobiographical AccountScholarship and Sponsored Research - Robert G BurgessContradiction, Continuum or Complementary ActivityHired Hand Research - Julius A RothPART SIX: GAINING RESEARCH ACCESSThe Study of Southern Labor Unions Organizing Campaigns - Donald RoyPlaying Back the Tape - John Van MaanenEarly Days in the FieldPART SEVEN: SAMPLINGDecision Taking in the Fieldwork Process - Janet Finch and Jennifer MasonTheoretical Sampling and Collaborative WorkingStrategy for Getting Organized - Leonard Schatzman and Anselm L StraussPART EIGHT: USING INFORMANTSIn the Company of Teachers - Robert G BurgessKey Informants and the Study of a Comprehensive SchoolKey Informant Interviews - Valerie J GilchristVOLUME TWO: METHODS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCHPART ONE: PARTICIPANT OBSERVATIONParticipant Observation - Paul RockThe Participant-Observer as a Human Being - Herbert J GansObservations on the Personal Aspects of Field WorkProblems of Inference and Proof in Participant Observation - Howard S BeckerPART TWO: INTERVIEWING`It′s Great to Have Someone to Talk to′ - Janet FinchThe Ethics and Politics of Interviewing WomenExperience and Knowledge - Marianne A PagetActive Interviewing - James A Holstein and Jaber F GubriumPART THREE: FOCUS GROUPSThe Focused Interview and Focus Groups - Robert K MertonContinuities and DiscontinuitiesThe Methodology of Focus Groups - Jenny KitzingerThe Importance of Interaction between Research ParticipantsPART FOUR: LIFE HISTORY AND ORAL HISTORYOn Auto/Biography in Sociology - Liz StanleyIntroduction to The Jack Roller - Howard S BeckerMovement without Aim - Ronald J GreleMethodological and Theoretical Problems in Oral HistoryIs Oral History Auto/Biography? - Joanna BornatPART FIVE: DOCUMENTARY RESEARCHEvidence and Proof in Documentary Research - Jennifer Platt1 Some Specific Problems of Documentary ResearchEvidence and Proof in Documentary Research - Jennifer Platt2 Some Shared Problems of Documentary ResearchQualitative Media Analysis - David L AltheidePART SIX: DIARIESKeeping a Research Diary - Robert G BurgessPublic and Private Meanings in Diaries - Linda BellResearching Family and ChildcarePART SEVEN: PHOTOGRAPHS, FILMS AND VIDEOFinding a Silent Voice for the Researcher - Rob WalkerUsing Photographs in Evaluation and ResearchFilm-Making and Ethnographic Research - Paul HenleyPART EIGHT: CONVERSATION AND DISCOURSE ANALYSISDiscourse Analysis as a Way of Analyzing Naturally Occurring Talk - Jonathan PotterAnalyzing Conversation - David SilvermanAn Initial Investigation of the Usability of Conversational Data for Doing Sociology - Harvey SacksVOLUME THREE: ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF QUALITATIVE DATAPART ONE: FIELDWORK NOTES AND TRANSCRIPTSData Logging in Observation - John Lofland and Lyn H LoflandFieldnotesTranscription Quality as an Aspect of Rigor in Qualitative Research - Blake D PolandFirst Days in the Field - Blanche GeerPART TWO: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEORY AND DATA IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCHWhat′s Wrong with Ethnography? The Myth of Theoretical Description - Martyn HammersleyGrounded Theory Methodology - Anselm Strauss and Juliet CorbinAn OverviewTemporality and Identity Loss Due to Alzheimer′s Disease - Celia J OronaPART THREE: ANALYTIC STRATEGIESThe Logical Sructure of Analytic Induction - W S RobinsonSymbolic Interactionism - Robin WilliamsThe Fusion of Theory and Research?Some Guidelines for the Phenomenological Analysis of Interview Data - Richard H HycnerPART FOUR: COMPUTERS IN QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSISQualitative Data Analysis - Amanda Coffey, Beverley Holbrook and Paul AtkinsonTechnologies and RepresentationsNUD·IST in Action - K BustonIts Use and Its Usefulness in a Study of Chronic Illness in Young PeoplePART FIVE: NARRATIVE ANALYSISSociological and Sociolinguistic Models of Narrative - Martin CortazziSounds of Still Voices - Tim BoothIssues in the Use of Narrative Methods with People Who Have Learning DifficultiesThe Codes of the Dead - Stephen R BarleyThe Semiotics of Funeral WorkDreams, Visions and Commercial Spaces - Mark GottdienerPART SIX: POSTMODERNISM MEETS ETHNOGRAPHYOn Ethnographic Authority - James CliffordEvaluating Qualitative Research in the Poststructural Moment - Norman K DenzinThe Lessons James Joyce Teaches UsThe Challenges of Postmodernism - Peter K ManningPART SEVEN: WRITINGThick Description - Clifford GeertzToward an Interpretive Theory of CultureAppealing Work - Karen Golden-Biddle and Karen LockeAn Investigation of How Ethnographic Texts ConvincePART EIGHT: VALIDATION ISSUESEstablishing Trustworthiness - Yvonna S Lincoln and Egon GubaOn the Analysis of Observational Data - Michael BloorA Discussion of the Worth and Uses of Inductive Techniques and Respondent ValidationPART NINE: QUALITATIVE DATA AND ARCHIVINGQualitative Data Archiving - Martyn HammersleySome Reflections on Its Prospects and ProblemsArchiving Qualitative Research Data - Louise Corti, Janet Foster and Paul ThompsonVOLUME FOUR: ISSUES IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCHPART ONE: ETHICAL ISSUESEthical Problems in Social Research - Martin BulmerThe Case of Covert Participant ObservationThe Ethics of Deception in Social Research - Erich GoodeA Case StudyWhose Side Are We on? - Howard S BeckerPART TWO: ISSUES OF GENDER AND FEMINISMInterviewing Women - Ann OakleyA Contradiction in TermsToward a Methodology for Feminist Research - Maria MiesTalking and Listening from Women′s Standpoint - Marjorie L DeVaultFeminist Strategies for Interviewing and AnalysisPART THREE: CULTURAL DIFFERENCECommonality, Difference and the Dynamics of Disclosure in In-Depth Interviewing - Miri Song and David ParkerStudying across Difference - Margaret L AndersonRace, Class and Gender in Qualitative ResearchPART FOUR: QUALITATIVE EVALUATION RESEARCHThe Nature of Qualitative Enquiry - Michael Quinn PattonEthnographic Contributions to Evaluation Research - Michael S KnappThe Experimental Schools Program Evaluation and Some AlternativesPART FIVE: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH AND POLICYDeveloping Policy-Oriented Qualitative Research - Janet FinchDisparities in the Social Construction of Long-Term Care - Rhoda Hurst RojianiPART SIX: ACTION RESEARCHAction Research - Alison KellyWhat Is It and What Can It Do?An Action Research Approach to Workplace Health - Margrit K Hugentobler, Barbara A Israel and Susan J SchurmanIntegrating MethodsPART SEVEN: PRACTITIONER RESEARCHDoubts, Dilemmas and Diary-Keeping - Gordon GriffithsSome Reflections on Teacher-Based ResearchEthnography Addressing the Practitioner - Michael Bloor and Neil McKeganeyPART EIGHT: GETTING OUTLeaving the Field - Stephen J TaylorResearch, Relationships and ResponsibilitiesLeaving the Newsroom - David L AltheidePART NINE: DISSEMINATIONThe British Association Scandal - D H J MorganThe Effect of Publicity on a Sociological InvestigationThe Sociologist as Celebrity - Peter AdlerThe Role of the Media in Field ResearchPART TEN: RESTUDIESStudying and Restudying Bishop McGregor School - Robert G BurgessStreet Corner Society - W A Marianne BoelenCornerville RevisitedIn Defense of Street Corner Society - William Foote Whyte