Using Computers in Qualitative Research - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803984251 ISBN 13: 9780803984257

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1991

Synopsis

This is a comprehensive assessment of recent developments in the use of computers in qualitative research, an increasingly important and rapidly growing area of interest among social scientists and graduate students.

Using Computers in Qualitative Research profiles and compares the principal programs available, identifying their particular strengths and limitations. It outlines the sorts of research problems that existing and forthcoming software can and cannot handle. The contributors also draw on their experiences of teaching computer-based techniques to suggest ways in which these could be incorporated into research methods training. [Reprinted with updated information on computer resources, 1992]

About this title

About the Author

Nigel G. Fielding, BA (Sussex) MA (Kent) PhD (LSE), is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His interests in research methodology include mixed methods, qualitative software, interview methods, field observation, and digitally mediated fieldwork. He has authored/edited 24 books, many in research methodology, most recently the second edition of the Handbook of online research methods (SAGE, 2017, with Grant Blank and Ray Lee).

Review

`This book stands as one of the must-read books for qualitative and would be qualitative researchers... deserves reading because of the important issues and themes presented.′ - Qualitative Health Research

`An impressive mixture of discussion and explanation which achieves its aims of being both a review and a primer.′ - Systems Practice

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0803984251
• ISBN 13: 9780803984257
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Fielding Nigel G., Lee Raymond