This book assembles a team of internationally-renowned researchers who share a commitment to rigorous qualitative research concerned with how social worlds are constructed. The contributors reflect on the analysis of various types of qualtiative data – observations, interviews, focus groups, documents, talk, visual data and the internet – using helpful case-studies.
New to the Third Edition:
- Includes new important topics such as using grounded theory, working with secondary data, systematic reviews, writing qualitative research, gender research, ethical issues, qualitative data analysis
- Presents new, exciting authors including Kathy Charmaz, Catherine Riessman and Clive Seale
- Offers new study features including internet links, chapter summaries and questions to readers
- Provides a more practical, student-friendly, focus on the pragmatic issues of doing qualitative research from defining a research problem through to data analysis, writing up, and applying qualitative research to social problems