<em>Comprehensive</em> is the word. Flick presents forms of theory in addition to kinds of research design and types of data collection methods. The message is that ideas and arguments are as important as techniques. The emphasis on both understanding and how-to-do is refreshing. The book is a splendid introduction for any and all planning to conduct qualitative research.
<p></p> -- Jaber F. Gubrium<br />Uwe Flick's book has been one of the best books around for introducing students and early-career researchers to qualitative research. With this fifth edition, the book will be very hard to beat in terms of comprehensiveness, clarity of writing, layout, use of examples, and drawing on personal experience of the qualitative research process. I strongly recommend it to lecturers and students alike as a well-crafted and highly instructive <i>Introduction to Qualitative Research</i>. -- Alan Bryman, Professor of Organisational and Social Research<br />The fifth edition of Uwe Flick's Introduction to Qualitative Research remains the most comprehensive and thorough text in qualitative research. It is student-and user-friendly, thoroughly up-to-date in terms of the latest developments in the field, imminently practical. it is the single most important introductory book on qualitative inquiry in the social sciences today. -- Norman K. Denzin<br />This is a very useful book which I will be recommending to all of our MSc/DBA students around the time of their qualitative methods workshop. It covers the domain of qualitative research comprehensively and is very well written and easy to follow. -- Dr. Claire Collins * Inspection Copy Feedback *
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In the new edition of his bestselling book, Uwe Flick introduces all of the main theoretical approaches to qualitative research, and provides unmatched coverage of the full range of methods now available to qualitative researchers. Organised around the process of doing qualitative research, the book guides you through ethics, research design, data collection, and data analysis.
In this fifth edition, you will find:
- a new chapter outlining methodological approaches to qualitative research
- new introductory sections at the beginning of each of the book's seven parts, which prepare the ground and define key terms
- lots of new practical examples which show you how to carry out all aspects of a qualitative research project
- new exercises that give you the opportunity to test your understanding of what you've read
- a brand new companion website full of resources for lecturers and students including suggested answers to the exercises in the book, full text journal articles and links to additional resources: http://uk.sagepub.com/flick5e
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Organized around the process of doing qualitative research, the Fifth Edition of the bestseller guides readers through ethics, research design, data collection, and data analysis.
PART ONE: FRAMEWORK
Guide to this Book
Qualitative Research: Why And How to Do It
Qualitative and Quantitative Research
Approaches to Qualitative Research
Ethics of Qualitative Research
PART TWO: THEORY IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Using the Existing Literature
Theories Underlying Qualitative Research
Texts as Data in Qualitative Research
PART THREE: RESEARCH DESIGN
Designing Qualitative Research
The Qualitative Research Process
Research Questions
Entering the Field
Sampling
Triangulation
PART FOUR: VERBAL DATA
Collecting Verbal Data
Interviews
Focus Groups
Using Narrative Data
PART FIVE: DATA BEYOND TALK
Collecting Data Beyond Talk
Observation and Ethnography
Visual Data: Photography, Film & Video
Using Documents as Data
PART SIX: QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS
Qualitative Data Analysis
Transcription and Data Management
Grounded Theory Coding
Thematic Coding and Content Analysis
Naturally Occuring Data: Conversation, Discourse, and Hermeneutic Analysis
Using Software in Qualitative Data Analysis
PART SEVEN: GROUNDING, WRITING AND OUTLOOK
Quality of Qualitative Research: Criteria and Beyond
Writing Qualitative Research
State of the Art and the Future
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Biografisk notat
Uwe Flick is Professor of Qualitative Research in Social Science and Education at the Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany. He is a trained psychologist and sociologist and received his PhD from the Freie Universitat 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 Friee Universitat 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), 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 Introducing Research Methodology: A Beginner's Guide to Doing a Research Project (2nd edn., London: Sage, 2015) and editor of A Companion to Qualitative Research (London: Sage, 2004) and the Psychology of the Social (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). As his most recent publications, he wrote Designing Qualitative Research (2nd edn, London: Sage, 2018), Doing Grounded Theory (London: Sage, 2018), Doing Triangulation and Mixed Methods (London: Sage, 2018), and Managing Quality in Qualitative Research (2nd edn, London: Sage, 2018) and edited The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis (London: Sage, 2014), The SAGE Qualitative Research Kit (2nd edn London: Sage