Taylor, Steven J.,  1949- <br/><br/>
Introduction to qualitative research methods :  a guidebook and resource / 
Steven J. Taylor, Robert Bogdan, Marjorie L. DeVault. 
 - Fourth edition. 
 - xii, 401 pages ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index 
<br/><br/>Machine generated contents note:  Among the People: How to Conduct Qualitative Research --  Introduction: Go to the People --  Note on the History of Qualitative Methods --  Qualitative Methodology --  Theory and Methodology --  Notes --  Research Design and Pre-Fieldwork --  Research Design --  Selecting Settings --  Obtaining Institutional Review Board Approval --  Writing Proposals --  Access to Organizations --  Access to Public and Quasi-Public Settings --  Access to Private Settings --  What Do You Tell Gatekeepers and Informants? --  Collecting Data About Obtaining Access --  Covert Research --  Participant Observation: In the Field --  Entering the Field --  Negotiating Your Role --  Establishing Rapport --  Participation --  Key Informants --  Difficult Field Relations --  Forming Relationships --  Field Tactics --  Asking Questions --  Learning the Language --  Field Notes --  Boundaries of a Study --  Leaving the Field --  Triangulation --  Ethics in the Field --  In-Depth Interviewing --  Qualitative Interview --  Types of Interview Studies --  Choosing to Interview --  Selecting Informants --  Approaching Informants --  Understanding the Interview in Context --  Managing the Interview Situation --  Getting People to Talk About What Is Important to Them --  Interview Guide --  Probing --  Cross-Checks --  Relations With Informants --  Recording Interviews --  Group Interviews --  Interviewer's Journal --  Note --  Montage: Discovering Methods --  Disrupting the "Commonsense World of Everyday Life": Harold Garfinkel --  Qualitative Research as Autobiography --  Entering a World Without Words --  Personal Documents --  Picturing Disability --  Photography and Videotaping --  Official Records and Public Documents --  Historical and Archival Research --  Notes --  Working With Data: Data Analysis in Qualitative Research --  Narratives: Descriptive and Theoretical Studies --  Building Theory --  Working With Data --  Constructing Life Histories --  Writing Qualitative Research: Selected Studies --  Writing and Publishing Qualitative Studies --  What You Should Tell Your Readers --  Some Tips on Writing --  Common Mistakes in Writing From Qualitative Data --  Publishing Qualitative Studies --  Selected Studies --  "You're Not a Retard, You're Just Wise": Disability, Social Identity, and Family Networks / --  Producing Family Time: Practices of Leisure Activity Beyond the Home / --  Ethnicity and Expertise: Racial-Ethnic Knowledge in Sociological Research / --  Citizen Portraits: Photos of People With Disabilities as Personal Keepsakes / --  "They Asked for a Hard Job": World War II Conscientious Objectors on the Front Lines / --  Steven J. Taylor --  Marjorie L. DeVault --  Marjorie L. DeVault --  Robert Bogdan --  Steven J. Taylor.  pt. ONE.  ch. 1.  ch. 2.  ch. 3.  ch. 4.  ch. 5.  ch. 6.  pt. TWO.  ch. 7.  ch. 8.  ch. 9.  ch. 10.  ch. 11.  ch. 12. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1118767217 9781118767214 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2015013787 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Qualitative research.<br/>Social sciences--Research--Methodology.<br/>Sociology--Research--Methodology.