Interpretive Interactionism (Applied Social Research Methods) - Hardcover

Denzin, Norman K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080393002X ISBN 13: 9780803930025

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1989

Synopsis

Filling a void in qualitative research methods, this volume presents a methodology for studying individual′s problems and how they are connected with both public issues and public response to these problems.

The author provides an accessible description of the existential, interpretive research approach, which includes: open-ended and creative interviewing; document analysis; life-history, personal experience and self-story construction; and participant observation.

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About the Author

Norman K. Denzin was Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. One of the world’s foremost authorities on qualitative research and cultural criticism, he was the author or editor of more than 30 books, including The Qualitative Manifesto; Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire; Reading Race; Interpretive Ethnography; The Cinematic Society; The Alcoholic Self; and a trilogy on the American West. He was past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, co-editor of six editions of the landmark SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, co-editor (with Michael D. Giardina) of 18 books on qualitative inquiry, co-editor (with Yvonna S. Lincoln and Michael D. Giardina) of the methods journal Qualitative Inquiry, founding editor of Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies and International Review of Qualitative Research, editor of four book series, and founding director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. 

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080393002X
• ISBN 13: 9780803930025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160