Critical Issues in Qualitative Research Methods

1. Auflage 1993
ISBN: 978-0-8039-5043-6
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 401 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 573 g

An American Journal of Nursing 1994 Book of the Year

Theoretically rich and stimulating, Critical Issues in Qualitative Research Methods targets matters inherent in qualitative research. It addresses some of the lesser-known or explicated qualitative research methods (such as ethology), the essential concepts of rigor and evaluation, dilemmas in data collection, and issues of scientific misconduct. The various schools of phenomenology and their major characteristics of excellence are described. In addition, ethical issues and concerns of scientific integrity are raised: Which set of ethics should a researcher use? Should one divulge their research purposes? Are there potential risks to informants? Each chapter in this volume deals with a matter that has not yet been resolved or addressed in existing literature. The chapters begin with a joint dialogue in which the contributors raise questions and comment upon the concept presented, thus giving a sense of the ongoing controversy these opinions engender. Critical Issues in Qualitative Research Methods is important reading for advanced students and researchers in all disciplines, especially nursing and allied health.

"Are you looking for ideas and techniques that will enhance the integrity, excellence, and spirit of your qualitative research? If so, this is the book for you. [Here], writers clarify not only theoretical, epistemological, and methodological issues but tackle the sensitivity area of issues of the spirit in qualitative research. Discussions are generally written in a crisp, clear, sometimes serious/sometimes whimsical way. Altogether, this makes for a delightful, rich, readable scholarly work. There were few, if any, chapters that did not provide mw with a fresh way of looking at something or a possible answer to a question that I had been harboring. The whimsical nature of some of the chapters was most refreshing. This is an important book for moving the profession along in its capability for conducting qualitative research."

--Lynne Maxwell, Nursing Research Quarterly

"The direct approach taken by the authors in exploring the soundness of qualitative research makes the book valuable for researchers of any inquiry paradigm. The contribution of this book--and where it succeeds brilliantly--is in raising as many questions as it answers. The authors are not afraid to give voice to what qualitative researchers know but often are reluctant to discuss: That exemplary qualitative research is not merely one set of steps that can be learned from a book and applied by all researchers."

--Theory and Methods

"I believe the book is interesting, varied in content, and of high quality. It is simply a fact that many more nurses are undertaking qualitative research, and while the number and quality of qualitative research publications are increasing, there is still a dearth of high-level discussion in the literature about issues in the process and outcome of the research."

--Kit Chesla, R.N., D.N.Sc., University of California, San Francisco

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morse, Janice M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dialogue
On Origins
Qualitative Research - Janice M Morse
Fact or Fantasy?
Dialogue
On Learning Qualitative Methods
Abstract Knowing - Katharyn A May
The Case for Magic in Method
Dialogue
More on Theory
`Emerging from the Data' - Janice M Morse
The Cognitive Processes of Analysis in Qualitative Inquiry
Dialogue
The Democracy of Interpretation
The Proof Is in the Pottery - Margarete Sandelowski
Toward a Poetic for Qualitative Inquiry
Dialogue
On Qualitatively Derived Intervention
Inside the Black Box - Janice M Swanson and Linda Chapman
Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Conducting Evaluation Research Using a Qualitative Approach
Basic Versus Applied Ethnography
Evaluation Criteria and Critique of Qualitative Research Studies - Madeleine Leininger
Dialogue
Good Phenomenology is.
The Richness of Phenomenology - Marilyn A Ray
Philosophic, Theoretic and Methodologic Concerns
Dialogue
Clarifying Phenomenological Methods
Schools of Phenomenology - Marlene Zichi Cohen and Anna Omery
Implications for Research
Dialogue
On Emic and Etic
Styles of Ethnography - Joyceen S Boyle
Dialogue
Sorting Out the Styles.
On the Evaluation of Ethnographies - Majorie A Muecke
Dialogue
More on Muddling Methods
Eroding Grounded Theory - Phyllis Noerager Stern
Dialogue
Questions About Focus Groups
The Group Effect in Focus Groups - Martha Ann Carey
Planning, Implementing, and Interpreting Focus Group Research
Dialogue
Using Videotaped Data
Using Videotaped Recordings in Qualitative Research - Joan L Bottorff
Dialogue
On Mentoring
Secondary Analysis in Qualitative Research - Sally Thorne
Issues and Implications
Dialogue
On Writing It Up
Qualitative Research Methods From the Reviewer's Perspective - Melanie Dreher
Dialogue
Researcher-Participant Relationships
Research and Therapeutic Interviews - Sally Hutchinson and Holly Wilson
A Poststructuralist Perspective
Dialogue
On Being a Stranger in the Field
Research Teams - Toni Tripp-Reimer et al
Possibilities and Pitfalls in Collaborative Qualitative Research
Dialogue
The Politics of Writing
Ethical Issues in Ethnography - Juliene G Lipson
Dialogue
Sloppy Science
Promoting Academic Integrity in Qualitative Research - Kathleen A Knafl

Über Autor(innen)

Morse, Janice M.
Janice M. Morse, PhD (Nurs), PhD (Anthro), FAAN is a professor and Presidential Endowed Chair at the University of Utah College of Nursing, and Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Canada., from 1991-1996, she also held a position as professor at The Pennsylvania State University. From 1997-2007, she was the founding Director and Scientific Director of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, University of Alberta, founding editor for the International Journal of Qualitative Methods, and Editor of the Qual Press monograph series. She remains the founding editor for Qualitative Health Research, (now in Volume 2, Sage1), is currently editor for the monograph series Developing Qualitative Inquiry, and The Essentials of Qualitative Inquiry (Left Coast Press). Her research programs are in the areas of suffering and comforting, preventing patient falls, and developing qualitative methods. In 2011, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement in Qualitative Inquiry from the International Center for Qualitative Inquiry, was an inaugural inductee into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame (2010), the 5th recipient of the Episteme Award (also Sigma Theta Tau). She received awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Newcastle (Australia) and Athabasca University (Canada). She is the author of 460 articles and chapters and 19 books on qualitative research methods, suffering, comforting and patient falls.