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Qualitative research design : an interactive approach / Joseph Maxwell.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Applied social research methods series ; 41Publication details: Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London : SAGE, 2012.Edition: Third editionDescription: xi, 218 pages. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781412981194 (pbk.) :
  • 1412981190 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 001.42 MAX
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Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach provides researchers and students with a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to planning qualitative research. It shows how the components of design interact with each other, and provides a strategy for creating coherent and workable relationships among these design components, highlighting key design issues. Written in an informal, jargon-free style, the new Third Edition incorporates examples and hands-on exercises.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-210) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface (p. vii)
  • About the Author (p. xi)
  • Chapter 1 A Model for Qualitative Research Design (p. 1)
  • The Organization of This Book (p. 18)
  • The Exercises in This Book (p. 18)
  • Notes (p. 21)
  • Chapter 2 Goals: Why Are You Doing This Study? (p. 23)
  • Personal, Practical, and Intellectual Goals (p. 24)
  • What Goals Can Qualitative Research Help You Achieve? (p. 29)
  • Notes (p. 38)
  • Chapter 3 Conceptual Framework: What Do You Think Is Going On? (p. 39)
  • The Value (and Pitfalls) of Research Paradigms (p. 41)
  • Experiential Knowledge (p. 44)
  • Prior Theory and Research (p. 48)
  • The Uses of Existing Theory (p. 49)
  • Concept Maps (p. 54)
  • Other Uses of Existing Research (p. 64)
  • Pilot and Exploratory Studies (p. 66)
  • Thought Experiments (p. 68)
  • Notes (p. 72)
  • Chapter 4 Research Questions: What Do You Want to Understand? (p. 73)
  • The Functions of Research Questions (p. 75)
  • Research Questions and Other Kinds of Questions (p. 76)
  • Research Hypotheses in Qualitative Designs (p. 77)
  • General Questions and Particular Questions (p. 78)
  • Instrumentalist Questions and Realist Questions (p. 79)
  • Variance Questions and Process Questions (p. 82)
  • Developing Research Questions (p. 83)
  • Chapter 5 Methods: What Will You Actually Do? (p. 87)
  • More and Less Structured Approaches (p. 88)
  • Negotiating Research Relationships (p. 90)
  • Site and Participant Selection (p. 96)
  • Decisions About Data Collection (p. 100)
  • The Relationship Between Research Questions and Data Collections Methods (p. 100)
  • Using Multiple Data Collection Methods (p. 102)
  • Decisions About Data Analysis (p. 104)
  • Strategies for Qualitative Data Analysis (p. 105)
  • Computers and Qualitative Data Analysis (p. 115)
  • Linking Methods and Questions (p. 116)
  • Notes (p. 120)
  • Chapter 6 Validity: How Might You Be Wrong? (p. 121)
  • The Concept of Validity (p. 122)
  • Two Specific Validity Threats: Bias and Reactivity (p. 124)
  • Researcher Bias (p. 124)
  • Reactivity (p. 124)
  • Validity Tests: A Checklist (p. 125)
  • Generalization in Qualitative Research (p. 136)
  • Notes (p. 138)
  • Chapter 7 Research Proposals: Presenting and Justifying a Qualitative Study (p. 139)
  • The Purpose of a Proposal (p. 140)
  • The Proposal as an Argument (p. 141)
  • The Relationship Between Your Research Design and Your Proposal Argument (p. 142)
  • A Model for Proposal Structure (p. 142)
  • Notes (p. 159)
  • Appendix A A Proposal for a Study of Medical School Teaching (p. 161)
  • Appendix B A Proposal for a Study of Online Learning by Teachers (p. 179)
  • References (p. 201)
  • Index (p. 211)

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