Designing Qualitative Research

Addressing the complexity, flexibility, and controversies of qualitative research’s many genresDesigning Qualitative Research, Sixth Edition gives students, research managers, policy analysts, and applied researchers clear, easy-to-understand guidance on designing qualitative research. While maintaining a focus on the proposal stage, this best-selling book takes readers from selecting a research genre through building a conceptual framework, data collection and interpretation, and arguing the merits of the proposal. Extended discussions cover strategies that researchers can use to address the challenges posed by postmodernists, feminists, and critical race theorists, as well as others who interrogate historical qualitative inquiry. The book also includes thoughtful discussion on trustworthiness and ethics, in addition to dealing with time, resource, and political stressors inherent to the research process. Throughout the book, the authors emphasize the importance of being systematic but also inspire readers with potential "Aha!" moments and opportunities to do research in close connection with people and communities.

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1. Introduction
Considerations
The Challenges
Developing an Arguement
Overview of the Book
Dialogue Between Authors
Further Reading
Key Concepts
2. Qualitative Research Genres
Major Genres
Critical Genres
Dialogue Between Authors
Dialogue Between Learners
Further Reading
Key Concepts
3. Trustworthiness and Ethics
Trustworthiness
Bringing Ethics Into Trustworthiness
Ethics: Focusing on People
Dialogue Between Authors
Dialogue Between Learners
Further Reading
Key Concepts
4. The What of the Study: Building the Conceptual Framework
Sections of the Proposal
Building the Conceptual Framework: Topic, Purpose, and Significance
Literature Review and Critique of Related Research
Dialogue Between Authors
Dialogue Between Learners
Further Reading
Key Concepts
5. The How of the Study: Building the Research Design
Meeting the Challenge
Justifying Qualitative Research
The Qualitative Genre and Overall Approach
Getting Concrete: The Setting, Site Population, or Phenomenon
Selecting a Sample of People, Actions, Events, and/or Processes
The Researcher′s Role: Issues of Personal Biography, Positionality, Entry, Rapport, Reciprocity, and Ethics
Anticipate Reviewers′ Concerns
Dialogue Between Authors
Dialogue Between Learners
Further Reading
Key Concepts
6. Basic Data Collection Methods
Observation
In-Depth Interviewing
Life Histories, Narrative Inquiry, and Digital Storytelling
Documents and Historical Analysis
Objects and Artifacts of Material Cultures
Dialogue Between Authors
Dialogue Between Learners
Further Reading
Key Concepts
7. Specialized and Focused Data Collection Methods
Using Internet and Digital Applications
Multimodal Approaches
Interaction Analysis
Dilemma Analysis
Combining Data Collection Methods
Dialogue Between Authors
Dialogue Between Learners
Further Reading
Key Concepts
8. Managing, Analyzing, and Interpreting Data
Recording, Managing, Transcribing, and Translating Data
Data Analysis
Generic Data Analysis Strategies
Analytic Procedures
Dialogue Between Authors
Dialogue Between Learners
Further Reading
Key Concepts
9. Stressors: Time, Resources, and Politics
Planning Resources for a Large Study
Topsy-Turvy Politics and Research
Planning Master′s Thesis and Dissertation Research
Dialogue Between Authors
Dialogue Between Learners
Further Reading
Key Concepts
10. Arguing the Merits of Your Proposal and Envisioning the Final Report
Criteria of Soundness
The Essential Qualitativeness of the Research
The Value of the Qualitative Approach
Demonstrating Precedents
Envisioning the Final Report, the Dissertation, or the Book
A Final Word
Dialogue Between Authors
Further Reading
Key Concepts
References