Like all writing, biographies are interpretive. They require no less than organizing into text the chaos of human existence. In Interpretive Biography Denzin combines one of the oldest techniques in the social sciences and humanities with one of the newest. Bringing in elements of postmodernism and interpretive social science, he reexamines the biographical and autobiographical genres. In addition, the book outlines a new way in which biographies should be conceptualized and shaped.
Like all writing, biographies are interpretive. They require no less than organizing into text the chaos of human existence. In Interpretive Biogra...
To help the researcher understand why and how children react to adults who are doing ethnographic research, Fine and Sandstrom explore the methodological and ethical problems of qualitative research with minors. They correct numerous fallacies held by researchers that children think like adults and that they cannot hide their thoughts and feelings from adults, especially strangers. Recognizing that age is an important determinant of children's response, they discuss problems and present strategies for conducting research with three age groups of children: preschool children (4 to 6 year...
To help the researcher understand why and how children react to adults who are doing ethnographic research, Fine and Sandstrom explore the methodologi...
This volume provides a basic framework for using visual data - namely still photographs - as a tool for social analysis. The authors determine the importance of theoretical assumptions in analysing these data and provide advice on how to use photographs in cognitive, symbolist and structuralist research.
This volume provides a basic framework for using visual data - namely still photographs - as a tool for social analysis. The authors determine the imp...
Demonstrates that unconscious strivings, aversions and emotional conflicts within investigators play a major role in the process of selecting, studying and constructing hypotheses about target populations.
Demonstrates that unconscious strivings, aversions and emotional conflicts within investigators play a major role in the process of selecting, studyin...
Why do people in a certain group behave the way they do? And, more importantly, what specific criteria was used by the group in question? This book presents a method for answering these questions.
Why do people in a certain group behave the way they do? And, more importantly, what specific criteria was used by the group in question? This book pr...
An exploration of strategies for writing up the same research in different ways - preparing the writer for approaching and addressing diverse audiences.
An exploration of strategies for writing up the same research in different ways - preparing the writer for approaching and addressing diverse audience...
Written in an accessible style, this volume tackles the topics of beginning to write, continuing to write, editing and getting published. It is indispensable not only to qualitative researchers but to anyone engaged in social research for whom the link between conducting research and writing it up seems more like an obstacle than an opportunity.
Written in an accessible style, this volume tackles the topics of beginning to write, continuing to write, editing and getting published. It is ind...
In this volume, Paul Atkinson presents useful advice on how to read, and therefore how to write, ethnography. He examines how ethnographers create field notes and how they do interview transcriptions, inevitably revealing the author's hand. He outlines various literary conventions used in ethnographic writing and points out some of the recent experiments that have departed from traditional ethnographic style. He links these to an analysis of the contributions of postmodernist theory to ethnographic work.
In this volume, Paul Atkinson presents useful advice on how to read, and therefore how to write, ethnography. He examines how ethnographers create fie...
Rose argues for a break with the corporate mould of ethnography to refashion it as a democratic form of thought and existence in which the ethnographer is fully engaged with the subject. He assesses the possibility of ethnography as a way of life.
Rose argues for a break with the corporate mould of ethnography to refashion it as a democratic form of thought and existence in which the ethnographe...
