Doing Good Qualitative Research

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-0-19-763314-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 504 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 862 g

In Doing Good Qualitative Research, Jennifer Cyr and Sara Wallace Goodman bring together over forty experts to provide one of the first comprehensive introductions to using qualitative methods across the social sciences. From concept formation and case selection to fieldwork, analysis, write-up, and publication, this volume provides accessible and practical advice to completing a qualitative research project. In addition to the basics of practicing qualitative research, chapters also discuss rarely covered but important topics, including fieldwork and mental health, interviewing vulnerable populations, fieldwork in violent contexts, and conducting fieldwork as a minoritized scholar. Each chapter introduces the theoretical considerations and best practices involved in the application of qualitative data collection and analysis. Additionally, contributors provide first-person accounts of methodology in action, address the expected and unexpected challenges associated with conducting qualitative research, and demonstrate the real-world applications of academic debates. Doing Good Qualitative Research is an engaging one-stop primer for both scholars and students carrying out qualitative research-based projects, from start to finish.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cyr, Jennifer

Goodman, Sara Wallace

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Contributors

- List of Tables and Figures

- 1. Introduction

- Jennifer Cyr and Sara Wallace Goodman

- Part One: Setting up a Research Project

- 2. Choosing a Research Question

- Julia Lynch

- 3. The Researcher's Gaze: Positionality and Reflexivity

- Lahoma Thomas

- 4. Theorization and Causality

- Cathie Jo Martin

- 5. The Construction of Knowledge

- Jooyoun Lee

- 6. Case Study and Selection

- Sara Wallace Goodman

- 7. The Potential of Mixed Methods for Qualitative Research

- Thalia Gerzso and Rachel Riedl

- 8. Preparing a Causal Research Design

- Jody LaPorte

- 9. Preparing an Interpretivist Research Design

- Tanya Schwarz and Carrie Reiling

- Part Two: Preparing for the Field

- 10. Preparing for the Field: The Nuts and Bolts

- Hannah Lebovits

- 11. Sampling Hard-to-Reach Populations

- Rana Khoury

- 12. Power Dynamics between Researcher and Subject

- Rachel Ayrton

- 13. Developing a Flexible Data-Collection Plan

- Lindsay Mayka and Jessica Rich

- 14. Considering Collaboration as Part of Your Research Design

- Mneesha Gellman

- 15. A Plan for Managing and Storing Your Data

- Verónica Pérez Bentancur

- Part Three: Collecting Qualitative Data

- 16. Interviewing Elites

- Lantian Li

- 17. Interviewing and Listening to Ordinary People

- Katherine Cramer

- 18. Interviewing Vulnerable Populations

- Wendy Pearlman

- 19. Focus Groups

- Jennifer Cyr

- 20. Ethnography

- Jessica Pisano

- 21. Supplementing Qualitative Work with Surveys, and Vice Versa

- Emily Thorson and Emily Farris

- 22. Locating and Working with Historical Data

- Diana Kim

- 23. Fieldwork in Fragile Contexts and with High Risk Populations: Ethics, Relationships, and Rapport

- Julie Chernov Hwang

- 24. Studying Indigenous Peoples' Politics: Recommendations for Non-Indigenous Researchers

- Tulia Falleti

- 25. Fieldwork as a Minoritized Scholar

- Robin L. Turner

- 26. Mental Health, Identity, and Fieldwork

- Dana El-Kurd and Calla Hummel

- 27. Navigating Ethical Issues and Choices in the Field

- Lauren Duquette-Rury

- 28. Digital Fieldwork: Opportunities and Challenges

- Lauren MacLean, Lahra Smith, and Diana Kapiszewski

- Part Four: Analyzing Qualitative Data

- 29. Reading Closely

- Antje Ellermann

- 30. The Role of Description

- Deborah Avant

- 31. Content Analysis

- Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana

- 32. Qualitative Social Network Analysis

- Jennifer Spindel

- 33. Process Tracing

- Amy Liu

- 34. Comparative Historical Analysis

- Prerna Singh

- 35. Discourse Analysis

- Tania Islas Weinstein

- 36. Qualitative Comparative Analysis

- Ioana-Elena Oana

- Part Five: Publishing Qualitative Research

- 37. Research Transparency in Qualitative Inquiry

- Diana Kapiszewski

- 38. Ethics of Transparency and Data Sharing

- Samantha Majic

- 39. Strategizing Fit and Legibility

- Shantel Buggs and Jennifer Sims

- 40. Publishing Qualitative Research

- Sara Wallace Goodman and Jennifer Cyr

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Cyr is Associate Professor of Political Science at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is the author of The Fates of Political Parties: Institutional Crisis, Continuity, and Change in Latin America and Focus Groups for the Social Science Researcher. She has also published in a wide variety of journals, including Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, PS: Political Science and Politics, Quality & Quantity, Studies in Comparative International Development, Sociological Methods and Research, and Revista de Ciencia Política, and has several chapters in edited volumes.

Sara Wallace Goodman is a Chancellor's Fellow and Dean's Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). She is the author of Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat, co-author of Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID, and author of Immigration and

Membership Politics in Western Europe, which received the Best Book Award from the European Politics and Society section of the American Political Science Association. Her work has also appeared in various journals including the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, and other venues.