Qualitative Research: Theory, Method and Practice - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803976666 ISBN 13: 9780803976665

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

Qualitative Research builds on the success of David SilvermanÆs Interpreting Qualitative Data (IQD) by assembling a well-known international team of researchers who share a commitment to rigorous, analytically derivedùbut non-polarizedùqualitative research. Each contribution reflects on the analysis of the data discussed in IQD--observations, texts, talk, and interviews--with each author using particular examples of data analysis to advance analytic argument. Common themes include: + The centrality of the relationship between analytic perspectives and methodological issues. + The need to broaden our conception of qualitative research beyond issues of subjective "meaning" toward issues of language, representation, and social organization. + The desire to search for ways of building links between social science traditions and a commitment to a dialogue between social science and the community. Accessibly written and broad ranging, Qualitative Research will be an invaluable resource for students to the approaches, their theoretical underpinnings, and research practice in qualitative analysis.

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About the Author

David Silverman trained as a sociologist at the London School of Economics and the University of California, Los Angeles. He taught for 32 years at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is interested in conversation and discourse analysis and he has researched medical consultations and HIV-test counselling.

He is the author of Interpreting Qualitative Data (Seventh Edition, 2024) and A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research (Second Edition, 2013). He is also the editor of Qualitative Research (Sixth Edition, 2026) and the Sage series, Introducing Qualitative Methods. In recent years, he has offered short, hands-on workshops in qualitative research for research students and faculty at universities in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.

Now retired from full-time work, David aims to watch one hundred days of cricket a year. He also enjoys voluntary work in an old people’s home where he sings with residents with dementia and strokes.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803976666
• ISBN 13: 9780803976665
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Silverman David