The New Language of Qualitative Method

ISBN-13: 9780195099942 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 256 str.

Gubrium

Opis

The New Language of Qualitative Method examines alternate vocabularies for conveying social reality. It offers a new theoretical view which reintegrates the traditional emphasis on the whats of social life with a contemporary understanding of the hows and whys. The text considers the basic presumptions, objectives, and research questions of four ma jor research traditions: naturalism, ethnomethodology, emotionalism, a nd postmodernism. Using illustrations from classic texts, it shows how each idiom supplies a unique perspective on empirical reality. The te xt then examines the risks and rewards of each approach, offering a vi sion of a renewed language of inquiry that accommodates both tradition al and contemporary concerns.

Recenzje

Gubrium and Holstein have done us a service in revisiting and updating hte ontological and epistemological assumptions of varieties of qualitative research...will be valuable for postgraduate courses in the philosophy of social research and qualitative methods. A book which attempts to bring qualitative methods into contemporary debates about epistemology is to be recommended, and it offers considerable material to enable the reader to evaluate their own form of qualitative research practice. - Barbara Harrison. Sociology. Vol 32. 1998.