Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials
Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials, Fourth Edition introduces the researcher to basic methods of gathering, analyzing and interpreting qualitative empirical materials. Part 1 moves from narrative inquiry, to critical arts-based inquiry, to oral history, observations, visual methodologies, and autoethnographic methods. It then takes up analysis methods, including computer-assisted methodologies, focus groups, as well as strategies for analyzing talk and text. The chapters in Part II discuss evidence, interpretive adequacy, forms of representation, post-qualitative inquiry, the new information technologies and research, the politics of evidence, writing, and evaluation practices.
easy to read/understand,
very helpful for specific interests
A key research text
Very useful book for qualitative data dissertation research.
A valuable a detailed resource for postgraduate qualitative researchers, recommended to students beginning doctoral studies
This is an excellent resource for graduate researchers whose area of enquiry is in the living world of interpersonal practice and human experience.
What can one say about this book that has not already been said by many others. It is an essential text. This latest edition is considerably updated from the previous one
This book is part of a series relating to qualitative research and focuses on the collection and interpretation of data. Part 1 covers methods of collecting and analysing with nine chapters of different approaches, for example, oral history, narrative inquiry and focus groups. Part 2 covers interpretation, evaluation and presentation with eight chapters with differing perspectives. It is enlightening and thorough but the writing is too dense for Undergrads. It is much more suited to Masters and Postgrads due to the complexity of ideas and perspectives presented.
This is part of an excellent series of texts relating to the collection and interpretation of qualitative materials. I have recommended this book (and the series) to my students as novice researchers who are grappling with the dynamic nature of qualitative research
Useful source for the qualitative aspects of marketing research, but will need to be balanced with texts related to qualitative as well.
Really useful book for 3rd year students undertaking their disserations.
Also recommended for post-graduate students.