Qualitative Research : Theory, Method and Practice

Edited By Silverman, David

ISBN 10: 0803976666 / ISBN 13: 9780803976665

Published by Sage Publications, 1998

About this Item

Type: Book Building on the success of David Silverman's Interpreting Qualitative Data, this book assembles a well-known international team of researchers who share a commitment to rigorous, analytically derived but nonpolarized, qualitative research. Each contribution reflects on the analysis of each of the kinds of data discussed in Interpreting Qualitative Data - observations, texts, talk and interviews - with the contributors using particular examples of data-analysis to advance analytic arguments. 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' and towards issues of language, representation and social organization; and 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. 262pp. N.B. Corners very slightly bumped. Slight reading crease to spine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Qualitative Research : Theory, Method and Practice
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803976666
• ISBN 13: 9780803976665
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Reprint.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published
• Weight: 16 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • SOCIOLOGY

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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.

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.