An Introduction to Qualitative Research

A new edition of THE guide to the full qualitative research process, featuring international case studies to help you situate your research in the global context.

Continuing to be THE guide to the whole qualitative research process for students, this book looks at both the theory behind qualitative research and how to put it into practice in your own work. For students across a range of social science disciplines and beyond, this is a must to help you enhance your research project.

This edition introduces:

• a decolonisation of methodologies
• a range of indigenous, queer and feminist perspectives on methodologies

• assistance with defending a viva and alternative forms of assessment to suit a changing world.
  More additions to this seventh edition include a section on the subjectivity of a researcher, and how your identity will shape your research. The further reading has been curated to include more than just western voices, providing you with global perspectives on qualitative research. This text introduces how to sensitively undertake ethical and inclusive research with marginalised groups.

  This book will help you master a comprehensive understanding of qualitative research.

  Autorentext
  *** Uwe Flick is Senior Professor of Qualitative Research in Social Science and Education at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He is a trained psychologist and sociologist and received his PhD from the Freie Universität Berlin in 1988 and his Habilitation from the Technical University Berlin in 1994. He has been Professor of Qualitative Research at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany and at the University of Vienna, Austria. Previously, he was Adjunct Professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Canada; a Lecturer in research methodology at the Freie Universität Berlin; a Reader and Assistant Professor in qualitative methods and evaluation at the Technical University Berlin; and Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Medical Sociology at the Hannover Medical School. He has held visiting appointments at the London School of Economics, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Cambridge University (UK), Memorial University of St John's (Canada), University of Lisbon (Portugal), Institute of Higher Studies in Vienna, in Italy and Sweden, and the School of Psychology at Massey University, Auckland (New Zealand). His main research interests are qualitative methods, social representations in the fields of individual and public health, vulnerability in fields like youth homelessness or (forced) migration and chronical illness in everyday live. He is the editor of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Design (2 Vols.; Sage 2022). The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis (Sage, 2014), The SAGE Qualitative Research Kit (Sage, 2nd edn, 2018), A Companion to Qualitative Research (Sage, 2004), Psychology of the Social (Cambridge University Press, 1998). His most recent publications are the seventh edition of An Introduction to Qualitative Research (Sage, 2023), Doing Grounded Theory (Sage, 2018), Doing Triangulation and Mixed Methods (Sage, 2018), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection (editor, Sage, 2018), the third edition of Introducing Research Methodology Thinking Your Way through Your Research Project (Sage, 2020) and Doing Interview Research - The Essential How To Guide* (Sage 2022). In 2019, Uwe Flick received the Lifetime Award in Qualitative Inquiry at the 15th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.

  Inhalt

  Foundations of Qualitative Research
  Why and How to Do Qualitative Research
  The Qualitative Quantitative Distinction
  Theoretical Frameworks
  Methods and Data in Qualitative Research
  Subjectivity, Identity, and Texts in Qualitative Research
  Research Design
  Formulating a Research Question
  Choosing and Constructing the Research Design
  Planning the Process in Qualitative Research
  Ethics of Doing Qualitative Research
  Using The Existing Literature
  Access, Fields Relations, and Participatory Research
  Sampling
  Qualitative Designs with Multiple Methods
  Verbal Data
  Collecting Verbal Data
  Doing Interviews
  Doing Focus Groups
  Using Narrative Data
  Data Beyond Talk
  Collecting Data Beyond Talk
  Observation and Ethnography
  Visual Data: Photography, Film and Video
  Documents as Data and Secondary Data Analysis
  Digital and Social Media Research
  Qualitative Data Analysis
  Analysing Qualitative Data
  Transcription and Data Management
  Grounded Theory Coding
  Thematic Coding and Content Analysis
  Analysing Naturally Occurring Data: Conversation and Discourse
  Using Software in Qualitative Data Analysis
  Grounding, Writing And Outlook
  Quality of Qualitative Research: Criteria and Beyond
  Writing Up and Assessment in Qualitative Research
  State of the Art and the Future