Qualitative Research in Action

Introduction Transformation in Principles and Practice PART ONE: PUTTING THE PRACTICE INTO THEORY Institutional Ethnography - Dorothy E Smith Critical Realist Ethnography - Sam Porter Framing the Rational in Fieldwork - Peter K Manning Analysing Interaction - Christian Heath and Jon Hindmarsh Video, Ethnography and Situated Conduct PART TWO: GENERALIZATION, INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS Generalization in Interpretive Research - Malcolm Williams Representation, Responsibilty and Reliability in Participant-Observation - Mart[ac]in S[ac]anchez-Jankowski Automating the Ineffable - Nigel G Fielding Qualitative Software and the Meaning of Qualitative Research Subjectivity and Qualitative Method - Valeria Walkerdine, Helen Lucey and June Melody PART THREE: CHOICES IN CONTEXT Observation and Interviewing - Kathleen Gerson and Ruth Horowitz Options and Choices in Qualitative Research Qualitative Interviewing - Jennifer Mason Asking, Listening and Interpreting Narrative in Social Research - Steph Lawler PART FOUR: POWER, PARTICIPATION AND EXPERTISE Engagement and Evaluation in Qualitative Inquiry - Linda McKie Negotiating Power and Expertise in the Field - Lynne Haney On Relations between Black Female Researcher and Participants - Tracey Reynolds PART FIVE: REFLEXIVITY, THE SELF AND POSITIONING Ethnography and the Self - Amanda Coffey Reflections and Representations Reflexivity and the Politics of Qualitative Research - Lisa Adkins Techniques for Telling the Reflexive Self - Beverley Skeggs Emotions, Fieldwork and Professional Lives - Sherryl Kleinman