Interpreting Qualitative Data 5th edition 9781446295434
Authors: David Silverman
ISBN-10: 1446295435
ISBN-13: 9781446295434
Edition: 5
Released: 2015-02-05
Paperback: 520 pages
Review
Vintage Silverman and top-notch as a result, this latest edition of IQD is as welcome as ever. Comprehensive, theoretically-informed, and reader-friendly, IQD is the quintessential student text for qualitative research.
(Jay Gubrium)
This book is the book I've been waiting for! It is a thorough exploration of qualitative research - from theoretical underpinnings and processes of data collection right through to analysis and writing. It is accessible and clear and provides a really exceptional overview for those new to research methods. It also includes lots of links to further reading. I can't praise this book enough.
(Fiona Harris)
A wonderful book on qualitative research methods and the interpretation of qualitative data. A Classic!
(Dimitris Boucas)
This latest edition is a useful and practical guide for the novice researcher. Its extended contents list, glossary, author and subject indexes, exercises, tips, recommended further reading and links to Internet sources all make this book easy to use as a guide and reference.
(Eric Fletcher, Newcastle University)
About the Author
David Silverman is Visiting Professor in the Business School, University of Technology, Sydney, Emeritus Professor in the Sociology Department, Goldsmiths’ College and Adjunct Professor in the School of Education, Queensland University of Technology. He has lived in London for most of his life, where he attended Christ's College Finchley and did a BSc (Economics) at the London School of Economics in the 1960s. Afterwards, he went to the USA for graduate work, obtaining an MA in the Sociology Department, University of California, Los Angeles. He returned to LSE to write a PhD on organization theory. This was published as The Theory of Organizations in 1970.
Apart from brief spells teaching at UCLA, his main teaching career was at Goldsmiths College. His three major research projects were on decision making in the Personnel Department of the Greater London Council (Organizational Work, written with Jill Jones, 1975), paediatric outpatient clinics (Communication and Medical Practice, 1987) and HIV-test counselling (Discourses of Counselling, 1997).
He pioneered a taught MA in Qualitative Research at Goldsmiths in 1985 and supervised around 30 successful PhD students. Since becoming Emeritus Professor in 1999, he has continued publishing methodology books. David regularly runs qualitative research workshops for five universities in Sydney and Brisbane. He has also run workshops for research students in Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France, Sri Lanka and Tanzania. Since 2000, he has done voluntary work with people with dementia. resident in an old people’s home
Besides all this, David's other interests include classical music, literary fiction, bridge, county cricket and spending time with his grandchildren.
In this fifth edition of his field-defining text, David Silverman, a true guru of qualitative research, walks the reader through the basics of gathering and analyzing qualitative data. The book offers beginners unrivalled hands-on guidance to help them get the best out of a research methods course or research project.
New to the fifth edition:
A streamlined structure to aid navigation and guide readers smoothly through the research process.
A new chapter on generalizing from case-study research which addresses the perennial issue of ‘how many cases do you need?’
New material on doing qualitative research online and the ethics of internet research.
Additional sections covering organizational documents and documents of everyday life, including blogs and diaries.
Many more recent case study examples drawn from a broad range of disciplines including business, education, social work and geography as well as health studies.
A new and improved companion website, full of additional resources for students and lecturers.
This is the perfect companion for all those new to qualitative research.
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Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Companion Website
About the Author
Preface to Fifth Edition
Part I THEORY AND METHOD IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
1 What is Qualitative Research?
1.1 A simple definition
1.2 Some complications
1.3 Loaded evaluations of research methods
1.4 Methods should fit your research question
1.5 The good sense of quantitative research
1.6 The nonsense of quantitative research
1.7 The good sense of qualitative research
1.8 The nonsense of qualitative research
1.9 Qualitative research models
2 Designing a Research Project
2.1 Selecting a topic
2.2 Formulating a researchable question
2.3 Fitting your research question into an appropriate theory
2.4 Choosing an effective research design
2.5 An effective literature review
2.6 Basic terms in research design
2.7 Conclusion
3 Generalising from Case Study Research
3.1 Purposive sampling
3.2 Theoretical sampling
3.3 What is a ‘case’?
3.4 Misunderstandings about case studies
3.5 Conclusion
4 Credible Qualitative Research
4.1 Does credibility matter?
4.2 Reliability
4.3 Validity
4.4 Conclusion
5 Data Analysis
5.1 Some rules for data analysis
5.2 Content analysis
5.3 Grounded theory
5.4 Narrative analysis
5.5 Conclusion
6 Research Ethics
6.1 Ethical pitfalls
6.2 Ethical safeguards
6.3 Some ethical complications
Part II METHODS
7 Interviews
7.1 What is an ‘open-ended’ interview?
7.2 Why interview?
7.3 Implications: three versions of interview data
7.4 Positivism
7.5 Naturalism
7.6 Constructionism
7.7 Adolescent cultures: combining ‘what’ and ‘how’
questions
7.8 Moral tales of parenthood
7.9 The three models: a summary
7.10 Summary: basic issues
7.11 Three practical questions – and answers
7.12 Conclusion
8 Focus Groups
8.1 What are focus groups?
8.2 Analysing focus group data in social science
8.3 Form or substance?
8.4 Concluding comments
9 Ethnography
9.1 The ethnographic focus
9.2 Methodological issues
9.3 The theoretical character of ethnographic observations
9.4 Conclusion: the unity of the ethnographic project
10 Documents
10.1 Four ways of analysing documents
10.2 Comparative keyword analysis (CKA)
10.3 Organisational documents
10.4 Documents of everyday life
10.5 Ethnomethodology: membership categorisation analysis
10.6 Conclusion
11 Naturally Occurring Talk
11.1 Discourse analysis
11.2 Why work with tapes?
11.3 Transcribing audiotapes
11.4 Why talk matters
11.5 Conversation analysis
11.6 Conversation analysis and discourse analysis compared
11.7 Conclusion
12 Visual Images
12.1 Kinds of visual data
12.2 Research strategies
12.3 Content analysis
12.4 Semiotics
12.5 Workplace studies
12.6 Conclusion
Part III IMPLICATIONS
13 Writing Your Report
13.1 Beginnings
13.2 Your literature review
13.3 Your methodology section
13.4 Writing up your data
13.5 Your final section
13.6 A short note on plagiarism
13.7 Self-expression or argument?
14 The Relevance of Qualitative Research
14.1 Whose side are we on?
14.2 The audiences for qualitative research
14.3 The contribution of qualitative social science
14.4 Summary
14.5 Conclusion
15 The Potential of Qualitative Research: Eight Reminders
15.1 Take advantage of naturally occurring data
15.2 Avoid treating the actor’s point of view as an explanation
15.3 Study the interrelationships between elements
15.4 Attempt theoretically fertile research
15.5 Address wider audiences
15.6 Begin with ‘how’ questions; then ask ‘why?’
15.7 Study ‘hyphenated’ phenomena
15.8 Treat qualitative research as different from journalism
15.9 Concluding remarks
Appendix: Simplified Transcription Symbols
Glossary
References
Author Index
Subject Index
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