Table of Contents

VOLUME ONE
Appendix of Sources
Editors′ Introduction
PART ONE: HISTORY, ETHICS, POLITICS AND PARADIGMS OF INQUIRY
Section One: History and Ethics
Qualitative Methods - Arthur J Vidich and Stanford M Lyman
Their History in Sociology and Anthropology
Action Anthropology - Sol Tax
Whose Side Are We On? - Howard S Becker
Black Bourgeoisie - E Franklin Frazier
Public and Academic Reactions
Sociological Snoopers and Journalistic Moralizers - Nicholas von Hoffman
An Exchange
Ethics - Yvonna S Lincoln and Egon G Guba
The Failure of Positivist Science
Emerging Criteria for Quality in Qualitative and Interpretive Research - Yvonna S Lincoln
Section Two: Positivism, Postpositivism and Constructivism
Methodological Principles of Empirical Science - Herbert Blumer
Situated Knowledges - Donna Haraway
The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
Section Three: Feminism, Radicalized Discourse, Critical Theory
Criteria of Negro Art - W E B Du Bois
Research - Zora Neale Hurston
A Blueprint for Negro Authors - Nick Aaron Ford
An American Dilemma - Ralph Ellison
A Review
The Homeland Aztlan and Movimientos de rebeldia y las culturas que traicionan - Gloria Anzald[ac]ua
Toward An Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology - Patricia Hill Collins
Saving Black Folk Culture - Bell Hooks
Zora Neale Hurston as Anthropologist and Writer
The Black Arts Movement - Larry Neal
Coloring Epistemologies - James Joseph Scheurich and Michelle D Young
Are Our Research Epistemologies Racially Biased?
A Manifesto for Cyborgs - Donna Haraway
Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s
Section Four: Poststructural and Postcolonial Theory
Thick Description - Clifford Geertz
Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture
Can the Subaltern Speak? - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
From Orientalism - Edward Said
Section Five: Queer Theory
Questions of Method - Michel Foucault
Imitation and Gender Insubordination - Judith Butler
Preface to The Use of Pleasure - Michel Foucault
VOLUME TWO
PART TWO: STRATEGIES OF INQUIRY
Section One: Ethnography
Revisiting Street Corner Society after Fifty Years - William Foote Whyte
Blurred Genres - Clifford Geertz
The Refiguration of Social Thought
Introduction - Ruth Behar
Out of Exile
An End to Innocence - John Van Maanen
The Ethnography of Ethnography
The `Ethnographic Society′ at Century′s End - Ken Plummer
Clarifying the Role of Public Ethnography
Fieldwork in the Era of Globalization - Arjun Appadurai
The Ethnographers′ Ball - Revisited - Patricia A Adler and Peter Adler
Section Two: Performance Ethnography
The Farmer′s Daughter - Michal McCall
A Performance Text
Beyond the Text - Dwight Conquergood
Toward a Performative Cultural Politics
Performing Theory/Embodied Writing - D Soyini Madison
Section Three: Case Study
Value of Delinquent Boy′s Own Story - Clifford R Shaw
The Case Study Method in Social Inquiry - Robert E Stake
Critique Checklist for a Case Study Report - Robert E Stake
Section Four: Life History
Suggested Outline to Be Followed in Studying and Writing the Life History of a Deviant - Edwin M Lemert
The Life Story Approach - Daniel Bertaux and Martin Kohli
A Continental View
Life History and the Critique of American Sociological Practice - Paul C Luken and Suzanne Vaughan
Section Five: Testimonio
Testimonio and Postmodernism - George Y[ac]udice
The Torture and Death of Her Little Brother, Burnt Alive in Front of Members of Their Families and the Community - Rigoberta Mench[ac]u
The Death of Petrocinio - David Stoll
Our Rigoberta? I, Rigoberta Menchu, Cultural Authority, and the Problem of Subaltern Agency - John Beverley
Section Six: Grounded Theory
The Discovery of Grounded Theory and Applying Grounded Theory - Barney G Glaser and Anselm L Strauss
Grounded Theory - Kathy Charmaz
Grounded Theory as an Emerging Paradigm for Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis - Markku Lonkila
Section Seven: Interpretive Practice and Ethnomethodology
Theorizing as Ideology - Dorothy Smith
The Origins of the Term `Ethnomethodology′ - Harold Garfinkel
Poststructuralist Theory as Political Necessity - Dorinne Kondo
Analytic Ethnography - John Lofland
Features, Failings and Futures
Poetics of Voice and Maps of Space - Paula Saukko
Two Trends within Empirical Research in Cultural Studies
At the Border of Narrative and Ethnography - Jaber F Gubrium and James A Holstein
Analyzing Talk and Text - David Silverman
Section Eight: Action Research and Clinical Research
Practical Anthropology - Bronislaw Malinowski
Current Issues, Problems, and Trends to Advance Qualitative Paradigmatic Research Methods for the Future - Madeleine Leininger
Participatory Action Research - William Foote Whyte, Davydd J Greenwood and Pater Lazes
Through Practice to Science in Social Research
Feminist Participatory Action Research - Bev Gatenby and Maria Humphries
Methodological and Ethical Issues
VOLUME THREE
PART THREE: METHODS OF COLLECTING EMPRICIAL MATERIALS
Section One: Interview
Of Sociology and the Interview - Mark Benney and Everett C Hughes
Interviewing Women - Ann Oakley
A Contradiction in Terms
Kundera′s Immortality - Paul Atkinson and David Silverman
The Interview Society and the Invention of the Self
The Active Interview in Perspective - James A Holstein and Jaber F Gubrium
Section Two: Observations
From Participant Observation to the Observation of Participation - Barbara Tedlock
The Emergence of Narrative Ethnography
Rethinking Observation - Michael V Angrosino and Kimberly Mays de Perez
From Method to Context
Section Three: Visual Methods
Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson on The Use of the Camera in Anthropology - Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead
The Performative Visual Anthropology Films of Zora Neale Hurston - Elaine S Charnov
Shadow Catchers or Shadow Snatchers? Ethical Issues for Photographers of Contemporary Native Americans - Lee Philip Brumbaugh
Section Four: Autoethnography
Auto-Ethnography - David M Hayano
Paradigms, Problems and Prospects
The Other Side of the Fence - Carolyn Ellis
Seeing Black and White in a Small Southern Town
The Next Night Sous Rature - Carol Rambo Ronai
Wrestling with Derrida′s Mimesis
Torch - Stacy Holman Jones
Section Five: Document Analysis and Material Culture
The Case for Personal Documents - Gordon W Allport
Ethical Considerations in Anthropology and Archaeology - Merrilee H Salmon
or Relativism and Justice for All
Dialogics of Material Culture - Kathleen Barlow and David Lipset
Male and Female in Murik Outrigger Canoes
Part Six: Narrative Methods
The Challenge of Qualitative Content Analysis - Sigfried Kracauer
Myth Today - Roland Barthes
Encoding, Decoding - Stuart Hall
Grandma′s Story - Trinh T Minh-ha
Section Seven: Representing and Analyzing Empirical Materials
The Quest for Universals in Sociological Research - Ralph H Turner
Telling about Society - Howard S Becker
Writing-Stories - Laurel Richardson
Co-Authoring `The Sea Monster,′ a Writing-Story
Section Eight: Focus Goups
Purpose and Criteria - Robert K Merton, Marjorie Fiske and Patricia L Kendall
Focus Groups - Richard A Krueger
Focus Groups in Feminist Research - Esther Madriz
Section Nine: Applied Ethnography
Anti-Minotaur - Alvin W Gouldner
The Myth of a Value-Free Sociology
Applying Ethnography - Eleanor Lyon
A Crisis of Representation in the Human Sciences - George E Marcus and Michael M J Fischer
VOLUME FOUR
PART FOUR: INTERPRETIVE PRACTICES
Section One: Interpretive Criteria
Ethnographic Evaluation - Donald W Dorr-Bremme
A Theory and Method
Section Two: Politics and Practices of Interpretation
Fertile Obsession - Patti Lather
Validity after Poststructuralism
Telling Tales of the South Pacific - Lola Romanucci-Ross
Multiple Subjectivities and Strategic Positionality - Graciela Hern[ac]andez
Zora Neale Hurston′s Experimental Ethnographies
Section Three: Writing: A Method of Inquiry
Letters to Dwight Macdonald - C Wright Mills
On Intellectual Craftsmanship - C Wright Mills
Writing Ethnographic Narratives - Linda Brodkey
Self, Truth and Form - Susan Krieger
Lessons from Georgia O′Keeffe
Section Four: Poetics
Tribal Fire and Scribal Ice - Ivan Brady
Experience and Poetics in Anthropological Writing - Edith Turner
That Rare Feeling - Corrine Glesne
Re-Presenting Research through Poetic Transcription
Poetry and Ethnography - Dennis Tedlock
A dialogical Approach
Section Five: Qualitative Program Evaluation
Qualitative Program Evaluation - Jennifer C Greene
Practice and Promise
Evaluation Research and the Practice of Social Services - Donileen R Loseke
A Case for Qualitative Methodology
Section Six: Policy Analysis
On the Application of Qualitative Research to the Policy Process - Ray C Rist
An Emergent Linkage
Policy as Communication and the Naturalistic Study of the Use of Policy Research - Steven Maynard-Moody
Section Seven: The Future: Tensions and Transformations
Concept Mapping as a Feminist Research Method - Rebecca Campbell and Deborah A Salem
Examining the Community Response to Rape
Return to Sumatra - Edward M Bruner
1957, 1997
Histories and Horoscopes - Mary Hamilton
The Ethnographer as Fortune-Teller
Comment on `Histories and Horoscopes: The Ethnographer as Fortune-Teller′ - Wendy Luttrell
I Yam What I Am - Rhonda Baynes Jeffries
Examining Qualitative Research Through the Ethnographic Self, the Literary `Other′, and the Academy
Advantages and Challenges of Using Inclusive Evaluation Approaches in Evaluation Practice - Katherine Ryan et al
The Anthro in Cali - Miles Richardson
Two Poems - Ivan Brady

About the Author

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. 



Yvonna S. Lincoln is Professor Emerita at Texas A&M University, where she held the Ruth Harrington Chair of Educational Leadership and was Distinguished Professor of Higher Education. She is the coeditor of the journal Qualitative Inquiry, coeditor of the first through six editions of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, and coeditor of The SAGE Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies. As well, she is the coauthor, editor, or coeditor of more than a half dozen other books and volumes. She has served as the President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education and the American Evaluation Research Association, and as the Vice President for Division J (Postsecondary Education) for the American Educational Research Association. She is the author of coauthor of more than 100 chapters and journal articles on aspects of higher education or qualitative research methods and methodologies.