Companion to Qualitative Research Book

Pt. 1	Introduction	1
1	What is qualitative research? : an introduction to the field	3
Pt. 2	Qualitative research in action : paradigmatic research styles	13
2.1	Anselm Strauss	17
2.2	Erving Goffman	24
2.3	Harold Garfinkel and Harvey Sacks	29
2.4	Paul Willis and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies	35
2.5	Paul Parin, Fritz Morgenthaler and Goldy Parin-Matthey	40
2.6	Clifford Geertz	47
2.7	Norman K. Denzin : life in transit	53
2.8	Marie Jahoda	58
Pt. 3	The theory of qualitative research	63
3.1	Phenomenological life-world analysis	67
3.2	Ethnomethodology	72
3.3	Symbolic interactionism	81
3.4	Constructivism	88
3.5	Social scientific hermeneutics	95
3.6	Qualitative biographical research	101
3.7	Qualitative generation research	108
3.8	Life-world analysis in ethnography	113
3.9	Cultural studies	118
3.10	Gender studies	123
3.11	Organizational analysis	129
3.12	Qualitative evaluation research	137
Pt. 4	Methodology and qualitative research	143
4.1	Design and process in qualitative research	146
4.2	Hypotheses and prior knowledge in qualitative research	153
4.3	Abduction, deduction and induction in qualitative research	159
4.4	Selection procedures, sampling, case construction	165
4.5	Qualitative and quantitative methods : not in opposition	172
4.6	Triangulation in qualitative research	178
4.7	Quality criteria in qualitative research	184
Pt. 5	Doing qualitative research	191
5.1	Ways into the field and their variants	195
5.2	Qualitative interviews : an overview	203
5.3	Interviewing as an activity	209
5.4	Group discussions and focus groups	214
5.5	Field observation and ethnography	222
5.6	Photography as social science data	231
5.7	Reading film : using films and videos as empirical social science material	237
5.8	Electronic process data and analysis	243
5.9	The transcription of conversations	248
5.10	The analysis of semi-structured interviews	253
5.11	The analysis of narrative-biographical interviews	259
5.12	Qualitative content analysis	266
5.13	Theoretical coding : text analysis in grounded theory	270
5.14	Computer-assisted analysis of qualitative data	276
5.15	Analysis of documents and records	284
5.16	Objective Hermeneutics and Hermeneutic sociology of knowledge	290
5.17	Conversation analysis	296
5.18	Genre analysis	303
5.19	Discourse analysis	308
5.20	Deep-structure hermeneutics	313
5.21	The art of interpretation	321
5.22	The presentation of qualitative research	326
Pt. 6	Qualitative research in context	331
6.1	Research ethics and qualitative research	334
6.2	Teaching qualitative research	334
6.3	Utilization of qualitative research	340
6.3	Utilization of qualitative research	349
6.4	The future prospects of qualitative research	354
6.5	The challenges of qualitative research	359
6.6	The art of procedure, methodological innovation and theory-formation in qualitative research	365
Pt. 7	Resource	371
7.1	Resources for qualitative researchers	373