商品簡介
Fully updated to reflect new research and procedures, this comprehensive treatment promotes new ways of thinking by offering new perspectives and the most up-to-date information. Padgett (social work, New York U.) introduces qualitative methods and their intellectual life course, theoretical and conceptual frameworks, and the six qualitative approaches: ethnography, grounded theory, case study analysis, narrative, phenomenological analysis, and action research or community-based participatory research. She shows how to get started with designing sampling, discusses ethical issues, and gives instructions on entering the field, connecting observations, interviewing, using documents, conducting data analysis and interpreting data, developing strategies for rigor, telling the story, and using mixed methods. She includes a very handy appendix on writing a qualitative methods proposal for external funding. The references are particularly well-chosen. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
