Preface 1. Introduction by the Editor: Patricia Leavy Part One: The Qualitative Tradition 2. Historical Overview of Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences: Svend Brinkmann, Michael Hviid Jacobsen, and Søren Kristiansen 3. The History of Historical-Comparative Methods in Sociology: Chares Demetriou and Victor Roudometof 4. The Centrality of Ethics in Qualitative Research: Anna Traianou Part Two: Approaches to Qualitative Research 5. Philosophical Approaches to Qualitative Research: Renée Spencer, Julia M. Pryce, and Jill Walsh 6. Applied Interpretive Approaches: Sally E.Thorne 7. The Grounded Theory Method: Antony Bryant 8. Feminist Qualitative Research: Toward Transformation of Science and Social Justice: Maureen C. McHugh 9. Critical Approaches to Qualitative Research: Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Peter Chua, and Dana Collins 10. Decolonizing Research Practice: Indigenous Methodologies, Aboriginal Methods, and Knowledge/Knowing: Mike Evans, Adrian Miller, Peter Hutchinson, and Carlene Dingwall Part Three: Narrative Inquiry, Field Research, and Interview Methods 11. Practicing Narrative Inquiry II: Making Meanings Move: Arthur P. Bochnerand Andrew F. Herrmann 12. Ethnography: Anthony Kwame Harrison 13. Practicing Autoethnograhy and Living the Autoethnographic Life: Carolyn Ellis and Tony E. Adams 14. Duoethnography: A Polytheoretical Approach to (Re)Storing, (Re)Storying the Meanings that One Give: Joe Norris and Rick Sawyer 15. Unstructured and Semi-Structured Interviewing: Svend Brinkmann 16. Oral History Interviewing: With Purpose and Critical Awareness: Valerie J. Janesick 17. Focus Group Research: Retrospect and Prospect: George Kamberelis and Greg Dimitriadis 18. Museum Studies: Erica L. Tucker Part Four: Text, Arts-Based, and Internet Methods 19. Content Analysis: Lindsay Prior 20. Photography as a Research Method: Gunilla Holm 21. Arts-Based Research Practice: Merging Social Research and the Creative Arts: Gioia Chilton and Patricia Leavy 22. Qualitative Approaches in Internet-Mediated Research: Opportunities, Issues, Possibilities: Claire Hewson Part Five: Multi-Method, Mixed Methods, and Participatory Designs 23. Case Study Research: In-Depth Understanding in Context: Helen Simons 24. Program Evaluation: Paul R.Brandon and Anna L. Ah Sam 25. Community-Based Research: A Grass-Roots and Social Justice Orientation to Inquiry: Margaret Boyd 26. Complex Teams and Qualitative Research: Judith Davidson 27. Qualitative Disaster Research: DeeDee M. Bennett, Mark R. Landahl, Brenda D.Phillips 28. Conducting Mixed Methods Research: Using Dialectical Pluralism and Social Psychological Strategies: Susan A. Tucker, R. Burke Johnson, Tony Onwuegbuzie, and Marjorie L. Icenogle Part Six: Analysis and Interpretation 29. Qualitative Data Analysis Strategies: Johnny Saldaña 30. Computer-Assisted Analysis of Qualitative Research: Christina Silver and Ann F. Lewins 31. Interpretation Strategies in Qualitative Research: What, Why, How: Allen Trent and Jeasik Cho Part Seven: Representation and Evaluation 32. Writing Up Qualitative Research: Jane F.Gilgun 33. Transforming Field Notes into Text: Jessica Smartt Gullion 34. Creative Approaches to Writing: Sandra L. Faulkner and Sheila Squillante 35. Scripting Ethnodrama: Joe Salvatore 36. Write-Reach-Repeat: The Role and Rise of Public Intellectualism in Qualitative Research: Robin M. Boylorn 37. Evaluating Qualitative Research 2.0: Jeasik Cho and Allen Trent Part Eight: Conclusion: Politics, Pedagogy, and the Public 38. The Politics of Research: Michael D. Giardina and Joshua I. Newman 39. Superheroes and Superpowers: Contemplative, Creative, and De/Colonial Approaches to Teaching Qualitative Research: Kakali Bhattacharya 40. A Changing Terrain: Qualitative Research in the Age of Transdisciplinarity and Public Scholarship: Patricia Leavy

"This handbook is a comprehensive methodological resource intended for a wide readership and incorporates several enhancements to the first edition ..., including new chapters on "duoenthnography," team-based research, and teaching qualitative research, as well as updated references and examples. ... Anyone seeking practical information about conducting qualitative research would benefit from this work. The enhancements justify investing in this new edition." -- R. V. Labaree, CHOICE "Provides information on many aspects of qualitative research and can be of value to music therapy students, researchers, and scholars. I encourage music therapists to take advantage of what it has to offer. Patricia Leavy says in the Preface, "My hope is that the handbook will be useful in the teaching of qualitative research to students across disciplines and that researchers will frequently pull it from their bookshelves." I believe that it serves this purpose. -- Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy "Editor Patricia Leavy has assembled an insightful collection that examines the challenges and opportunities inherent to qualitative research. Inclusive and dynamic, the handbook's chapters will be of interest, and helpful, to a wide array of new and senior researchers." -- Keith Berry, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of South Florida "Patricia Leavy has done it again! The Second Edition of The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research is a rich resource for a field trying to keep abreast of a multitude of nuanced changes within qualitative research. The Handbook provides substantive and historical overviews of qualitative traditions, and it also opens the way for introducing more emergent and contemporary approaches. Yet it doesn't stop there DL the volume covers ongoing issues such as evaluation, ethics, and public engagement for all qualitative researchers. Accessible for students, scholars, and practitioners alike, this Handbook is a must-have resource for anyone embarking upon or continuing their work in qualitative research!" -- Rita L. Irwin, Professor, Art Education and Curriculum Studies, The University of British Columbia "This new edition of The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research, masterfully edited by Patricia Leavy and authored by an impressive team of international and multi-disciplinary scholars, is a veritable feast, articulating with freshness and vitality issues that are crucial for qualitative researchers across the social sciences. Enthusiastically recommended!" -- Liora Bresler, Professor Emerita, College of Education, University of Illinois

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Patricia Leavy, PhD, is a leading researcher, acclaimed author, and public speaker. She has published more than twenty-five books, including Research Design: Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Arts-Based, and Community-Based Participatory Research Approaches, Handbook of Arts-Based Research, Method Meets Art, The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship, and the novels Spark, Blue, American Circumstance, and Low-Fat Love. She is also series creator and editor for eight book series with Oxford University Press and Brill-Sense, including the ground-breaking Social Fictions series. She has blogged for The Creativity Post, The Huffington Post, Mogul, and We Are the Real Deal and is cofounder and co-editor-in-chief of Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal. She has received career awards from the New England Sociological Association, the American Creativity Association, the American Educational Research Association, the National Art Education Association, and the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, and the State University of New York at New Paltz has established the "Patricia Leavy Award for Art and Social Justice."

Selling point: Includes ample methodological and research design instruction Selling point: Contributors are leading methodologists in their fields Selling point: Includes new section with chapters on different writing and representation formats