An Introduction to Qualitative Research

PART ONE: FRAMEWORKGuide to This BookQualitative Research: Why and How to Do ItQualitative and Quantitative ResearchEthics of Qualitative ResearchPART TWO: FROM THEORY TO TEXTMaking Use of the Literature in Qualitative ResearchTheoretical Positions Underlying Qualitative ResearchEpistemological Background: Construction and Understanding of TextsPART THREE: RESEARCH DESIGNThe Qualitative Research ProcessResearch QuestionsEntering the FieldSamplingHow to Design Qualitative Research: An OverviewPART FOUR: VERBAL DATAInterviewsNarrativesFocus GroupsVerbal Data: An OverviewPART FIVE: OBSERVATION AND MEDIATED DATAObservation and EthnographyVisual Data: Photography, Film and VideoUsing Documents as DataQualitative Online Research: Using the InternetObservation and Mediated Data: An OverviewPART SIX: FROM TEXT TO THEORYDocumentation of DataCoding and CategorizingAnalyzing Conversation, Discourse and GenresNarrative and Hermeneutic AnalysisUsing Computers in Qualitative AnalysisText Interpretation: An OverviewPART SEVEN: GROUNDING AND WRITING QUALITATIVE RESEARCHQuality Criteria in Qualitative ResearchThe Quality of Qualitative Research: Beyond CriteriaWriting Qualitative ResearchPART EIGHT: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH: INTEGRATION AND OUTLOOKQualitative Research at Work I: Grounded TheoryQualitative Research at Work II: TriangulationQualitative Research: State of the Art and the Future

<p class="Bodytextfullout"><span>Uwe Flick is Professor of Qualitative Research in Social Science and Education at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. He is a trained psychologist and sociologist and received his PhD from the Free University of Berlin in 1988 and his Habilitation from the Technical University of Berlin in 1994. He has been Professor of Qualitative Research at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany and at the University of Vienna, Austria. Previously, he was Adjunct Professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Canada; a Lecturer in research me­thodology at the Free University of Berlin; a Reader and Assistant Professor in qualitative methods and evaluation at the Technical University of Berlin; and Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Medical Sociology at the Hannover Medical School. He has held visiting appointments at the London School of Economics, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, at Cambridge University (UK), Memorial University of St. John's (Canada), University of Lisbon (Portugal), Institute of Higher Studies in Vienna, in Italy and Sweden, and at the School of Psychology at Massey University, Auckland (New Zealand). His main research interests are qualitative methods, social representations in the fields of individual and public health, vulnerability in fields like youth homelessness or migration, and technological change in everyday life. He is the author of Designing Qualitative Research (London: Sage, 2007) and Managing Quality in Qualitative Research (London: Sage, 2007) and editor of The SAGE Qualitative Research Kit (London: Sage, 2007), A Companion to Qualitative Research (London: Sage, 2004), Psychology of the Social (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), Quality of Life and Health: Concepts, Methods and Applications (Berlin: Blackwell Science, 1995), and La perception quotidienne de la Santé et la Maladie: Théories

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