Bloor, Michael; Wood, Fiona

Keywords in Qualitative Methods : A Vocabulary of Research Concepts

About the authors viii Introduction 1(4) A Access Negotiations 5(4) Action Research 9(4) Analytic Induction 13(3) Analytic Notes (see Research Diary) Audio-Recording 16(2) Authenticity (see Naturalism) Authorial Presence (see Reflexivity) Autoethnography 18(3) B Bias 21(3) Biographies 24(3) C Case Study 27(4) Chicago School (see Symbolic Interactionism) Citizens' Jury 31(1) Coding (see Indexing) Cognitive Mapping 32(3) Community Studies (see Action Research; Ethnography) Computer-Assisted Data Analysis 35(4) Computer-Mediated Interviewing (see Electronic Data Collection) Confessional Accounts (see Writing) Constant Comparative Method (see Grounded Theory) Conversation Analysis 39(4) Covert Research 43(4) Critical Cases (see Case Study) D Dangerous Fieldwork 47(2) Data Protection (see Ethics) Deconstructionism (see Discourse Analysis) Delphi Groups 49(1) Depth Interviews (see Interviews) Deviant Case Analysis (see Analytic Induction) Diary Methods 50(3) Discourse Analysis 53(4) Documentary Methods 57(4) E Electronic Data Collection 61(3) Ethics 64(5) Ethnography 69(6) Ethnomethodology 75(4) F Feminist Methods 79(3) Fieldnotes 82(3) Fieldwork Relationships 85(3) Focus Groups 88(5) Foreshadowed Problems (see Ethnography) G Gatekeepers (see Access Negotiations) Generalization 93(2) Going Native (see Bias) Grounded Theory 95(4) Group Interviews 99(2) H I Indexing 101(3) Indigenous Researchers (see Public Participation) Informed Consent (see Ethics) Interviews 104(5) K Key Informants 109(2) L Leaving the Field 111(2) Life History (see Oral History) Logical Analysis 113(2) M Member Validation (see Triangulation) Meta Ethnography 115(1) Mixed Methods (see Multiple Methods) Multiple Methods 116(3) N Narratives 119(3) Naturalism 122(3) O Observation (see Ethnography) Oral History 125(3) P Participant Observation (see Ethnography) Phenomenological Methods 128(2) Piloting 130(2) Positivism (see Naturalism) Postmodernism 132(3) Poststructuralism (see Postmodernism) Process Evaluation 135(1) Public Participation 136(3) Public/Private Accounts 139(4) Public Sociology (see 'Whose Side Are We On?') Purposive Sampling (see Sampling) Q Qualitative/Quantitative Combinations (see Multiple Methods) R Rapid Assessment 143(2) Realism (see Naturalism) Reflexivity 145(2) Reliability/Validity 147(3) Research Diary 150(3) Researcher Safety (see Dangerous Fieldwork) Respondent Validation (see Triangulation) S Sampling 153(4) Semi-Structured Interviews (see Interviews) Social Network Analysis 157(2) Software (see Computer-Assisted Data Analysis) Symbolic Interactionism 159(4) T Taxonomies 163(1) Telephone Interviewing (see Electronic Data Collection) Theoretical Sampling (see Sampling) Theoretical Saturation 164(2) Thick Description (see Theoretical Saturation) Time Sampling (see Sampling) Transcription 166(4) Triangulation 170(3) Trust 173(3) U Uses of Qualitative Research 176(4) V Validity (see Reliability) Video Analysis (see Video-Recording) Video-Recording (and Video Analysis) 180(3) Vignettes 183(2) Virtual Focus Groups (see Focus Groups) W 'Whose Side Are We On?' 185(2) Writing 187(4) Index 191