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...