Couples theoretical articles with practical research examples in order to help students of varying degrees develop a holistic understanding of the process of qualitative research. This book covers a range of traditional and emergent research methods as well as techniques of analysis and writing.

I. DISTINGUISHING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 1: Egon G. Guba and Yvonna S. Lincoln: Competing Paradigms in Qualitative Research: Theories and Issues 2: Joey Sprague and Mary Zimmerman: Overcoming Dualisms: A Feminist Agenda for Sociological Methodology 3: Sandra Harding: How Standpoint Methodology Informs Philosophy of Social Science 4: Mark R. Rank: The Blending of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Understanding Childbearing among Welfare Recipients 5: Deborah L. Tolman and Laura Szalacha: Dimensions of Desire: Bridging Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in a Study of Female Adolescent Sexuality II. INTERACTION AND POSITIONALITY WITHIN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 6: bell hooks: Culture to Culture: Ethnography and Cultural Studies as Critical Intervention 7: Barrie Thorne: "You Still Takin' Notes?" Fieldwork and Problems of Informed Consent 8: Kath Weston: Fieldwork in Lesbian and Gay Communities 9: William L. Miller and Benjamin F. Crabtree: Depth Interviewing 10: Charles A. Gallagher: "White Like Me?" Methods, Meaning, and Manipulation in the Field of White Studies 11: Kathryn Anderson, Susan Armitage, Dana Jack, and Judith Wittner: Beginning Where We Are: Feminist Methodology in Oral History 12: Ingrid Botting: Understanding Domestic Service through Orla History and the Census: The Case of Grand Falls, Newfoundland 13: David L. Morgan: Focus Groups 14: Peter McDermott and Julia Rothenberg: Why Urban Parents Resist Involvement in Their Children's Elementary Education III. UNOBTRUSIVE METHODS, VISUAL RESEARCH, AND CULTURAL STUDIES 15: Lindsay Prior: Following in Foucault's Footsteps: Text and Context in Qualitative Research 16: Jon Prosser and Dona Schwartz: Photographs wihtin the Sociological Research Project 17: Diana Rose: Analyses of Moving Images 18: Chris Mann and Fiona Stewart: Introducing Online Methods 19: Denna Harmon and Scot B. Boeringer: A Content Analysis of Internet-Accessible Written Pornographic Depictions IV. ANALYSIS, INTERPRETATION, AND THE WRITING OF QUALITATIVE DATA 20: John Van Maanen: An End to Innocence: The Ethnography of Ethnography 21: Norman K. Denzin: The Art and Politics of Interpretation 22: Laural Richardson: Writing: A Method of Inquiry 23: Kathy Charmaz: Grounded Theory 24: Katherine Borland: "That's Not What I Said": Interpretive Conflict in Oral Narrative Research 25: Sharlene Hesse-Biber: Unleashing Frankenstein's Monster? The Use of Computers in Qualitative Research

Provides a comprehensive set of classical and contemporary readings on social research In-depth introductions to each section and theoretical articles illustrated by practical research examples Interdisciplinary applications make it relevant across the social sciences