Now with entertaining and inspiring videos from the author and a wealth of online resources to support the text the approachable, clear and friendly Sixth Edition of David Silverman′s classic text equips you with the tools to tackle key issues faced by qualitative researchers and establish good practice in your own research.
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Now with entertaining and inspiring videos from the author and a wealth of online resources to support the text the approachable, clear and friendly Sixth Edition of David Silverman′s classic text equips students with the tools to tackle key issues faced by qualitative researchers and establish good practice in their own research.
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Part I: Theory and Method in Qualitative Research Chapter 1: What is Qualitative Research? Chapter 2: Designing a Research Project Chapter 3: Generalising from Qualitative Data Chapter 4: Credible Qualitative Research Chapter 5: Data Analysis Chapter 6: Research Ethics Part II: Methods Chapter 7: Interviews Chapter 8: Focus Groups Chapter 9: Ethnography Chapter 10: Documents Chapter 11: Naturally Occurring Talk Chapter 12: Visual Images Chapter 13: Mixed Methods Part III: Implications Chapter 14: Writing Your Report Chapter 15: The Relevance of Qualitative Research Chapter 16: The Potential of Qualitative Research
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Students who are truly interested in understanding the present digitalized society would be lost in its complexities without the help and support of the most experienced analyst of qualitative material, David Silverman. His textbooks adapt and evolve in tact with global developments and should be read by faculty and students from all social science domains.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781526467256
Publisert
2019-11-28
Utgave
6. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
SAGE Publications Ltd
Vekt
1170 gr
Høyde
232 mm
Bredde
186 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
568

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Biographical note

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.