Qualitative Research Methods PDF

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This book is a practical guide to conducting and analyzing qualitative research. Now in its third edition, Qualitative Research Methods describes the research process from beginning to end, and engages with the theoretical and philosophical debates surroundin research. This new edition: describes methodological issues and presents a step-by-step guide to qualitative research techniques; explains both established, as well as more innovative and complex methods; includes two new chapters--one on qualitative case study research, and another on grounded theory research; builds on the popular chapters on cyber research and reserach with vulnerable groups; includes practical chapters on writing proposals and research reports, and has an expanded section on ethics.

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• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 3 edition (August 3, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0195551435
• ISBN-13: 978-0195551433
• Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 7.5 x 9.2 inches
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Qualitative Research Methods PDF

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Too many uses of abstract generalised terms.

Attention authors - especially academics: while it's true that generalisations 'cover all bases', if you use ones that are too broad, they end up saying NOTHING.
They become empty vessels with NO INFORMATION in them: like some hot air balloon become so broad and expansive there's more air than balloon!

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The topic of qualitative research - especially data analysis - is already quite abstract, because it is about data, concepts, the relationships between concepts and so on.

When writing about such an abstract topic, this author used far too many generalisations and abstractions without attaching EXAMPLES that ensured the information MADE SENSE - actually CONVEYED INFORMATION (the purpose of a textbook).

Here's just one MILD example of thousands. The author is describing suggested steps to take when applying the method of 'Narrative Analysis' to data. After writing earlier about finding themes in the data, she says:

"4. Make some notes about the thematic ideas you have developed from the transcript. Then use them to indicate where the participant provides accounts for his or her actions and to exhibit the general structure of the story. Also look for any interruptions/discontinuities that may contradict the themes."

So WTF does this mean exactly?

Surely these concepts are abstract enough without describing them with such flocculesence as this!

Authors like this one - a mild perpetrator, it has to be said - make students' lives hell. Worse, they deprive society of knowledge. Every academic these days should be made to write a yearly paper on Orwell's essay Politics and the English Language.