Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials

Download or read book Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials written by Norman K. Denzin and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the third of three paperback volumes taken from The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, Fourth Edition. It introduces the researcher to basic methods of gathering, analyzing and interpreting qualitative empirical materials. Part 1 moves from narrative inquiry, to critical arts-based inquiry, to oral history, observations, visual methodologies, and autoethnographic methods. It then takes up analysis methods, including computer-assisted methodologies, focus groups, as well as strategies for analyzing talk and text. The chapters in Part II discuss evidence, interpretive adequacy, forms of representation, post-qualitative inquiry, the new information technologies and research, the politics of evidence, writing, and evaluation practices.