Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry (Handbook of Qualitative Research Paperback Edition , Vol 2)

In this second version of the three-volume paperback landmark Handbook of Qualitative Research, editors Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln consider the major strategies employed by the qualitative researcher. Starting from the research design process, the book covers funding, case studies, ethnography, grounded theory, participative inquiry, and much more - offering a range of methods that can be employed in any study. Outstanding contributors thoroughly cover each topic.

The Handbook of Qualitative Research has been heralded as the state of the art in evaluating the field of qualitative inquiry and features contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field. Now published in paperback in response to the needs of classroom teachers, Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry is an excellent choice for building a course on research methods, across a wide number of academic disciplines.

Norman K. Denzin was Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. One of the world’s foremost authorities on qualitative research and cultural criticism, he was the author or editor of more than 30 books, including The Qualitative Manifesto; Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire; Reading Race; Interpretive Ethnography; The Cinematic Society; The Alcoholic Self; and a trilogy on the American West. He was past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, co-editor of six editions of the landmark SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, co-editor (with Michael D. Giardina) of 18 books on qualitative inquiry, co-editor (with Yvonna S. Lincoln and Michael D. Giardina) of the methods journal Qualitative Inquiry, founding editor of Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies and International Review of Qualitative Research, editor of four book series, and founding director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.