روش‌های تحقیق کیفی برای علوم اجتماعی (ویرایش چهارم)

This book offers the most comprehensive and straightforward coverage of doing qualitative research on the market, now with a new chapter on Action Research. The author's central purpose remains a desire to instruct inexperienced researchers in ways of effectively collecting, organizing, and making sense of qualitative data, while stressing the importance of ethics in research and in taking the time to properly design and think through any research endeavor. After reading this book, fledgling researchers should be able to design, collect, and analyze data and then present their results to the scientific community. This book offers the most comprehensive coverage of qualitative techniques of any book on the market today and does it in a way that is easy to read and follow. The author's central purpose remains a desire to instruct inexperienced researchers in ways of effectively collecting, organizing, and making sense of qualitative data, while stressing the importance of ethics in research and in taking the time to properly design and think through any research endeavor. After reading this book, fledgling researchers should be able to design, collect, and analyze data and then present their results to the scientific community. Considers seven different data collection strategies in detail. Describes focus group interviewing, one of the fastest growing styles of data collection, in detail (Ch. 5), including a new Moderator's Guide that provides the inexperienced focus group facilitator with a step-by-step guide to how the interview should be conducted. Maintains the emphasis on ethics in research (Ch. 3) including a new section on the President's apology for the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. This volume offers a comprehensive and straightforward coverage of doing qualitative research. The central purpose of this book is to instruct inexperienced researchers in ways of collecting, organizing and making sense of qualitative data. CHAPTER 12: WRITING RESEARCH PAPERS: SORTING THE NOODLES FROM THE SOUP - Guiding questions of analysis: why, what, how, who, where, when? Conducting an interview. A natural or an unnatural communication? Delineating a supportive structure: visual signals for the reader Other analysis strategies: typologies, sociograms, and metaphors - A new problem in data protection: the case of Mario Brajuha Identifying the purpose of the writing: arranging the noodles Facilitating focus groups dynamics: How focus groups work Analyzing data obtained from the dramaturgical interview - Focus group interviewing and face-to-face interviewing - Focus group interviewing and participant observation Doing historiography: Tracing written history as data - Focus group interviewing and unobtrusive measures Gathering the information to answer the question(s) Quantitative versus qualitative schools of thought - Interviewers' attitudes and persuading a subject - A practical/mutual collaborative/deliberate mode CHAPTER 4: A DRAMATURGICAL LOOK AT INTERVIEWING CHAPTER 11: AN INTRODUCTION TO CONTENT ANALYSIS A word about the content of papers and articles A few common problems in question formulation