The science of qualitative research / Martin Packer.
"This book is a unique examination of qualitative research in the social sciences. It explores the multiple roots of qualitative research in order to diagnose the current state of play and recommend an alternative"-- "This book is a unique examination of qualitative research in the social sciences,...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 422 pages |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. The Objective Study of Subjectivity: 1. Paradigms of inquiry; 2. The qualitative research interview; 3. The analysis of qualitative research interviews; 4. Hermeneutics and the project for a human science; 5. Qualitative analysis reconsidered; Part II. Ethnographic Fieldwork - the Focus on Constitution: 6. Calls for a new interpretive social science; 7. The social construction of reality; 8. Constitution as ontological; 9. The crisis in ethnography; 10. Studying ontological work; Part III. Inquiry with an Emancipatory Interest: 11. Qualitative research as critical inquiry; 12. Emancipatory inquiry as rational reconstruction; 13. Social science as participant objectification; 14. Archaeology, genealogy, ethics; 15. A historical ontology of ourselves.