Table of Contents

Introduction - Norman K Denzin and Yvonna S Lincoln
The Discipline and Practice of Qualitative Research
PART ONE: LOCATING THE FIELD
Qualitative Methods - Arthur J Vidich and Stanford M Lyman
Their History in Sociology and Anthropology
Reconstructing the Relationships between Universities and Society through Action Research - Davydd J Greenwood and Morten Levin
For Whom? Qualitative Research, Representations and Social Responsibilities - Michelle Fine et al
Ethics and Politics in Qualitative Research - Clifford G Christians
PART TWO: PARADIGMS AND PERSPECTIVES IN TRANSITION
Paradigmatic Controversies, Contradictions and Emerging Confluences - Yvonna S Lincoln and Egon G Guba
Three Epistemological Stances for Qualitative Inquiry - Thomas A Schwandt
Interpretivism, Hermeneutics and Social Constructionism
Feminisms and Qualitative Research at and into the Millennium - Virginia L Olesen
Racialized Discourses and Ethnic Epistemologies - Gloria Ladson-Billings
Rethinking Critical Theory and Qualitative Research - Joe L Kincheloe and Peter McLaren
Cultural Studies - John Frow and Meaghan Morris
Sexualities, Queer Theory and Qualitative Research - Joshua Gamson
PART THREE: STRATEGIES OF INQUIRY
The Choreography of Qualitative Research Design - Valerie J Janesick
Minuets, Improvisations and Crystallization
An Untold Story? Doing Funded Qualitative Research - Julianne Cheek
Performance Ethnography - Michal M McCall
A Brief History and Some Advice
Case Studies - Robert E Stake
Ethnography and Ethnographic Representation - Barbara Tedlock
Analyzing Interpretive Practice - Jaber F Gubrium and James A Holstein
Grounded Theory - Kathy Charmaz
Objectivist and Constructivist Methods
Undaunted Courage - William G Tierney
Life History and the Postmodern Challenge
Testimonio, Subalternity and Narrative Authority - John Beverley
Participatory Action Research - Stephen Kemmis and Robin McTaggart
Clinical Research - William L Miller and Benjamin F Crabtree
PART FOUR: METHODS OF COLLECTING AND ANALYZING EMPIRICAL MATERIALS
The Interview - Andrea Fontana and James H Frey
From Structured Questions to Negotiated Text
Rethinking Observation - Michael V Angrosino and Kimberly A Mays de Perez
From Method to Context
The Interpretation of Documents and Material Culture - Ian Hodder
Re-Imagining Visual Methods - Douglas Harper
Galileo to Neuromancer
Auto-Ethnography, Personal Narrative, Reflexivity - Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P Bochner
Researcher as Subject
Data Management and Analysis Methods - Gery W Ryan and H Russell Bernard
Software and Qualitative Research - Eben A Weitzman
Analyzing Talk and Text - David Silverman
Focus Groups in Feminist Research - Esther Madriz
Applied Ethnography - Erve Chambers
PART FIVE: THE ART AND PRACTICES OF INTERPRETATION, EVALUATION AND REPRESENTATION
The Problem of Criteria in the Age of Relativism - John K Smith and Deborah K Deemer
The Practices and Politics of Interpretation - Norman K Denzin
Writing - Laurel Richardson
A Method of Inquiry
Anthropological Poetics - Ivan Brady
Understanding Social Programs through Evaluation - Jennifer C Greene
Influencing the Policy Process with Qualitative Research - Ray C Rist
PART SIX: THE FUTURE OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Qualitative Inquiry - Mary M Gergen and Kenneth J Gergen
Tensions and Transformations
The Seventh Moment - Yvonna S Lincoln and Norman K Denzin
Out of the Past

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.