Approaches to Qualitative Research : A Reader on Theory and Practice

Acknowledgments vi Contributors vii Credits xiv I DISTINGUISHING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 1(130) Competing Paradigms in Qualitative Research: Theories and Issues 17(22) Egon G. Guba Yvonna S. Lincoln Overcoming Dualisms: A Feminist Agenda for Sociological Methodology 39(23) Joey Sprague Mary Zimmerman How Standpoint Methodology Informs Philosophy of Social Science 62(19) Sandra Harding The Blending of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Understanding Childbearing among Welfare Recipients 81(16) Mark R. Rank Dimensions of Desire: Bridging Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in a Study of Female Adolescent Sexuality 97(34) Deborah L. Tolman Laura Szalacha II INTERACTION AND POSITIONALITY WITHIN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 131(172) Culture to Culture: Ethnography and Cultural Studies as Critical Intervention 149(10) Bell Hooks ``You Still Takin' Notes?'' Fieldwork and Problems of Informed Consent 159(18) Barrie Thorne Fieldwork in Lesbian and Gay Communities 177(8) Kath Weston Depth Interviewing 185(18) William L. Miller Benjamin F. Crabtree ``White Like Me?'' Methods, Meaning, and Manipulation in the Field of White Studies 203(21) Charles A. Gallagher Beginning Where We Are: Feminist Methodology in Oral History 224(19) Kathryn Anderson Susan Armitage Dana Jack Judith Wittner Understanding Domestic Service through Oral History and the Census: The Case of Grand Falls, Newfoundland 243(20) Ingrid Botting Focus Groups 263(23) David L. Morgan Why Urban Parents Resist Involvement in Their Children's Elementary Education 286(17) Peter McDermott Julia Rothenberg III UNOBTRUSIVE METHODS, VISUAL RESEARCH, AND CULTURAL STUDIES 303(106) Following in Foucault's Footsteps: Text and Context in Qualitative Research 317(17) Lindsay Prior Photographs within the Sociological Research Process 334(16) Jon Prosser Dona Schwartz Analyses of Moving Images 350(17) Diana Rose Introducing Online Methods 367(35) Chris Mann Fiona Stewart A Content Analysis of Internet-Accessible Written Pornographic Depictions 402(7) Denna Harmon Scot B. Boeringer IV ANALYSIS, INTERPRETATION, AND THE WRITING OF QUALITATIVE DATA 409(126) An End to Innocence: The Ethnography of Ethnography 427(20) John Van Maanen The Art and Politics of Interpretation 447(26) Norman K. Denzin Writing: A Method of Inquiry 473(23) Laural Richardson Grounded Theory 496(26) Kathy Charmaz ``That's Not What I Said'': Interpretive Conflict in Oral Narrative Research 522(13) Katherine Borland Unleashing Frankenstein's Monster? The Use of Computers in Qualitative Research 535 Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber