PART I: SETTING THE SCENE Introducing Qualitative Research, David Silverman Addressing Social Problems through Qualitative Research, Michael Bloor Research Ethics and Qualitative Research, Anne Ryen PART II: INTERVIEWS AND FOCUS GROUPS The `Inside' and the `Outside': Finding Realities in Interviews, Jody Miller and Barry Glassner Narrative Practice and the Active Interview, James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium Analysing Focus Group Data, Sue Wilkinson PART III: ETHNOGRAPHY What Is Ethnography, Giampietro Gobo and Lukas Marciniak Organizational Ethnography, Thomas Eberle and Christoph Maeder Practising Reflexivity in Ethnography, Marie Buscatto PART IV: TEXTS Analysing Documents through Fieldwork, Katarina Jacobsson Using Documents in Social Research, Lindsay Prior PART V: TALK Discursive Psychology and the Study of Naturally Occurring Talk, Jonathan Potter Conversation Analysis: Practices and Methods, John Heritage PART VI: EXPANDING TECHNOLOGIES Internet/Digital Research, Annette Markham and Simona Stavrova Online Interviewing, Nalita James and Hugh Busher Using Conversation Analysis and Discursive Psychology to Analyse Online Data, Joanne Meredith Critical Discourse Studies and Social Media Data, Johann W. Unger, Ruth Wodak and Majid KhosraviNik PART VII: VISUAL DATA Visual Inquiry: Issues and Developments, Michael Emmison Embodied Action: Video and the Analysis of Social Interaction, Christian Heath PART VIII: QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS Some Pragmatics of Qualitative Data Analysis, Tim Rapley Constructing Grounded Theory Analyses, Kathy Charmaz and Anthony Bryant What's Different about Narrative Inquiry? Cases, Categories and Contexts, Catherine Kohler Riessman Systematic Reviews and Qualitative Studies, Mary Dixon-Woods Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data, Libby Bishop Validity in Qualitative Research, Anssi Perakyla Writing Qualitative Research: Practice, Genre and Audience, Amir Marvasti

A comprehensive book that enables the reader to easily understand the principles of qualitative research. David Silverman's books have been indispensable throughout my own research - brilliant! -- Louise LawsonMany years of teaching how to do qualitative research to management and social science research students means that I always recommend David Silverman's Qualitative Research as the the go to text. It is simply the best. -- Stewart CleggThis book contains everything that a qualitative researcher needs to know and a quantitative researcher needs to learn. Written by the world-renowned authorities in their fields, this edition covers all issues relevant to qualitative research, from choosing the research topic through fieldwork techniques, analytical approaches, and the ways to write it all up. -- Barbara CzarniawskaSilverman provides a welcome new edition to an accessibly written, coherently organised and comprehensive introduction to qualitative research. It is an interesting and informative read with clear and concise explanations and is an essential for researchers using qualitative methods and analysing data. -- Gareth AddidleWant to understand qualitative research? This is the must-have book for you. This 4th edition is unquestionably the very best work on qualitative research that I have read, with an expanded section on new technologies. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to students, researchers, policy makers and everyone with an interest in qualitative research. -- Susan Danby