Doing Qualitative Research : The Craft of Naturalistic Inquiry

Naturalistic Inquiry Is About Studying People In Everyday Circumstances By Ordinary Means. It Strives To Blend In, To Respect People In Their Daily Lives, To Take Their Actions And Experiences Seriously, And To Build On These Carefully. Doing Qualitative Research: The Craft Of Naturalistic Inquiry Offers Guidance, Combining Thoughtful Reflection With Practical Tips. It Is Written For Undergraduate And Graduate Students In Social Science; For Practitioners In Social Work, Healthcare, Policy Advice, And Organizational Consultancy; And For All Who Have A Genuine Interest In Society And Its Members. A Short Animation Of The Arc Of Naturalistic Inquiry Can Be Found Here. Naturalistic inquiry is about studying people in everyday circumstances by ordinary means. It strives to blend in, to respect people in their daily lives, to take their actions and experiences seriously, and to build on these carefully. 'Doing Qualitative The Craft of Naturalistic Inquiry' offers guidance, combining thoughtful reflection with practical tips. It is written for undergraduate and graduate students in social science; for practitioners in social work, healthcare, policy advice, and organizational consultancy; and for all who have a genuine interest in society and its members. Joost Beuving teaches anthropology at Radboud University Nijmegen. He has a special interest in everyday economic life. He has studied car dealers in the second-hand car trade between Europe and West Africa, and fishermen in the Nile perch export business on Lake Victoria, East Africa. Geert de Vries teaches sociology at VU University Amsterdam and Amsterdam University College. He specializes in historical sociology. He has studied educational expansion, schools, the life-worlds of youngsters, and social problems and social change in the Netherlands. Title page 4 Copyright page 5 Table of contents 6 List of boxes 10 List of figures 12 Acknowledgements 14 Introduction: The arc of naturalistic inquiry 16 1. On naturalistic inquiry: Key issues and practices 28 2. Theorizing society: Grounded theory in naturalistic inquiry 48 3. Looking at society: Observing, participating, interpreting 66 4. Talking about society: Interviewing and casual conversation 90 5. Reading society: Texts, images, things 114 6. Disentangling society: The analysis of social networks 136 7. Not getting lost in society: On qualitative analysis 158 8. Telling about society: On 174 Epilogue: Present and future of naturalistic inquiry 192 References 202 Index of names 214 Index of subjects 216 Naturalistic inquiry is about studying people in everyday circumstances using ordinary means. It strives to blend in -- respecting people in their daily lives, taking their actions and experiences seriously while not interfering -- in order to come to theoretical understanding. This textbook offers guidance, combining thoughtful reflection with practical tips. It is written for undergraduate and graduate students in social science; for practitioners in social work, healthcare, policy advice, and organizational consultancy; and for all who have a genuine interest in society and its members

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