Qualitative Research

David Silverman trained as a sociologist at the London School of Economics and the University of California, Los Angeles. He taught for 32 years at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he is now Emeritus Professor in the Sociology Department as well as Visiting Professor in the Business Schools, King’s College, London, Leeds University and University of Technology Sydney and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology. He is interested in conversation and discourse analysis and he has researched medical consultations, shelters for homeless people and HIV-test counselling.He is the author of Doing Qualitative Research (sixth edition, 2022) and A Very Short, Fairly Interesting, Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research (second edition, 2013c). He is the editor of Qualitative Research (fifth edition, 2021) and the Sage series Introducing Qualitative Methods. In recent years, he has offered short, hands-on workshops in qualitative research for universities in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Now retired from full-time work, he aims to watch 100 days of county cricket a year. He also enjoys spending time with his grandchildren and great-grandsons as well as voluntary work in an old people’s home where he chats and sings with residents.

• PART I SETTING THE SCENEChapter 1: Introducing Qualitative Research - David Silverman Chapter 2: Addressing Social Problems through Qualitative Research - Ross Koppel and Joel TellesChapter 3: Research Ethics: Between Care and Control - Anne Ryen PART II INTERVIEWS AND FOCUS GROUPSChapter 4: The `Inside′ and the `Outside′: Finding Realities in Interviews - Jody Miller and Barry GlassnerChapter 5: Interviewing as a form of Narrative Practice - James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium Chapter 6: Analysing Focus Group Data - Sue Wilkinson PART III ETHNOGRAPHYChapter 7 Ethnographic Approaches: Types, Trends and Themes - Giampietro Gobo and Erika CelliniChapter 8: Organizational Ethnography - Thomas Eberle and Christoph MaederChapter 9: Practising Reflexivity in Ethnography - Marie BuscattoPART IV TEXTSChapter 10: Analysing Documents Through Fieldwork - Katarina Jacobsson Chapter 11: Using Documents in Social Research - Lindsay Prior PART V TALKChapter 12: Discursive Psychology and Naturally Occurring Talk - Jonathan Potter Chapter 13: Conversation Analysis: Practices and Methods - John HeritagePART VI EXPANDING TECHNOLOGIESChapter 14: Using Conversation Analysis and Discursive Psychology to Analyse Online Data - Joanne MeredithChapter 15: Critical Discourse Studies and Social Media Data - Johann W. Unger, Ruth Wodak and Majid KhosravinikChapter 16: Working with Video and Online Data: From Field Work to Analysis - Susan DanbyPART VII VISUAL DATAChapter 17: Visual Research: Issues and Developments - Michael EmmisonChapter 18: Embodied Action: Video and the Analysis of Social Interaction - Christian Heath PART VII QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSISChapter 19: Some Pragmatics of Qualitative Data Analysis - Tim Rapley Chapter 20: Multimethod Qualitative Research - Nanna Mik-MeyerChapter 21: Constructing Grounded Theory Analyses - Kathy Charmaz and Antony BryantChapter 22: Narrative Approaches to Social Science - Barbara CzarniawskaChapter 23: Systematic Reviews and Qualitative Studies - Mary Dixon-Woods Chapter 24: Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data - Libby BishopChapter 25: Validity in Qualitative Research - Anssi Peräkylä Chapter 26: Writing Qualitative Research: Practice, Genre, and Audience - Amir Marvasti

This book of readings provides us with a wealth of varied advice enlightening the researcher about the exciting world of qualitative research. I recommend the book without hesitation.