The Landscape of Qualitative Research - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412957583 ISBN 13: 9781412957588

Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc, 2008

Synopsis

The Landscape of Qualitative Research, Third Edition, the first volume of the paperback versions of the The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, Third Edition, takes a look at the field from a broadly theoretical perspective, and is composed of the Handbook's Parts I (ôLocating the Fieldö), II (ôMajor Paradigms and Perspectivesö), and VI (ôThe Future of Qualitative Researchö). The Landscape of Qualitative Research, Third Edition attempts to put the field of qualitative research in context. Part I provides background on the field, starting with history, then action research and the academy, and the politics and ethics of qualitative research. Part II isolates what we regard as the major historical and contemporary paradigms now structuring and influencing qualitative research in the human disciplines. The chapters move from competing paradigms (positivist, post positivist, constructivist, critical theory) to specific interpretive perspectives, feminisms, racialized discourses, cultural studies, sexualities, and queer theory. Part III considers the future of qualitative research.New to the Third Edition · Contains a new Reader's Guide prepared by the editors that helps students and researchers navigate through the chapters, locating the different methodologies, methods, techniques, issues, and theories relevant to their work. ò Presents an abbreviated Glossary of terms that offer students and researchers a ready resource to help decode the language of qualitative research. ò Offers recommended Readings that provide readers with additional sources on specific topic areas linked to their research. Intended AudienceThis text is designed for graduate students taking classes in social research methods and qualitative methods as well as researchers throughout the social sciences and in some fields within the humanities.

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Review:

"This book is a must for anyone teaching, or wishing to better understand, qualitative research . . . This handbook is destined to be a classic text in the field of qualitative research that belongs on every student's and researcher's bookshelf."

(HARVARD EDUCATIONAL REVIEW)

About the Author:

Norman K. Denzin is Distinguished Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology and Humanities, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of numerous books, including The Qualitative Manifesto, Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire, and Performance Ethnography: Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Culture. He is past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, co-editor of Qualitative Inquiry, founding editor of Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies, editor of International Review of Qualitative Research, editor of Studies in Symbolic Interaction, and founding Director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1412957583
• ISBN 13: 9781412957588
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 632
• Editor: Denzin Norman K., Lincoln Yvonna S.