Have2004

Have2004
BibType	BOOK
Key	Have2004
Author(s)	Paul ten Have
Title	Understanding Qualitative Research and Ethnomethodology
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Tag(s)	Basic Resources, EMCA
Publisher	Sage Publications
Year	2004
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City	London
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ISBN	0761966846; 0761966854
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`The book makes a valuable addition to the field providing a very useful resource for those evaluating, engaging in, or embarking on, research' - Monika Buscher, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University

This book provides a discussion of qualitative research methods from an ethnomethodological perspective. Detailed yet concise, Paul ten Have's text explores the complex relation between the more traditional methods of qualitative social research and the discipline of ethnomethodology. It draws on examples from both ethnomethodological studies and the wider field of qualitative research to discuss critically an array of methods for qualitative data collection and analysis.

Preface Chapter 1 Qualitative methods in social research

    Ideas and evidence in social research 
    Types of social research 
       Qualitative versus quantitative 
    Styles of qualitative social research 
       Interview studies 
       Using documents 
       Ethnography 
    The analytic status of research materials 
    Theoretical objects 
    Reconsidering Ragin’s model 
    Some major points 
    Recommended reading

Chapter 2 Ethnomethodology’s perspective

   What is ethnomethodology – a first sketch 
   A bit of history 
       Early collaborators 
   Some core notions 
       Accountability and reflexivity 
       Members’ methods 
       Indexicality 
   Later developments 
   Two Sacksian notions 
   Conversation Analysis as Ethnomethodology 
   Some major points 
   Recommended reading

Chapter 3 Ethnomethodology’s methods

   Ethnomethodology and commonsense procedures 
       Four strategies 
   Common sense as inevitable resource 
   Garfinkel’s breaching experiments 
   Recordings and transcripts 
       Bird song depictions in field guides 
       Transcription versus description 
       Illustration 
       Transcription reconsidered 
   Reflecting on ethnomethodology’s methods 
   Some major points 
   Recommended reading

Chapter 4 Interviews

   The interview society 
   The interview format 
       Turn-by-turn interviews 
       Discourse Unit interviews 
       Mixed formats 
       Questions and answers 
       Supportive actions 
       To conclude 
   Variations on the classic interview format 
       Multiple interviewees 
       Alternative elicitation techniques 
   Reconsidering interviews as data 
       Interviews and ethnomethodology 
       Taking up the challenge to interviews 
   Exemplary studies 
       Passage through crisis 
       A constant burden 
       Symptoms and illness 
   Final reflections 
   Some major points 
   Recommended reading

Chapter 5 Natural documents

   Contexts 
   Documentary evidence in qualitative research 
   Factist considerations 
       Texts and images 
   Some exemplary studies 
       The civilising process 
       Working-class families 
       Complaint letters 
   Documents and practices of documentation 
       Patient record cards in General Practice 
       Computer-based record systems 
   Documents as such: structures and devices 
   Writing and reading 
   Final reflections 
   Some major points 
   Recommended reading

Chapter 6 Ethnography and field methods

   On field methods 
   Conflicting loyalties 
   A classic case: Street Corner Society 
       Bowling 
       ‘Objective structures’ and a leadership perspective 
       Effects of publication 
   Institutional ethnography 
   Perspectives 
   Note-taking 
   More exemplary studies 
       Euthanasia practices in two hospitals 
       Passing on 
       Telling the code 
       Categorical issues 
   Field recordings 
       Instructed hearing/viewing 
       Virtual ethnography 
   Ethnography and ethnomethodology 
   Some major points 
   Recommended reading

Chapter 7 Qualitative Analysis

   The general GT approach 
   GT’s ‘Theory’ 
   ‘Theory’ & ‘meta-theory 
   The process of discovery 
   Discussion 
   Ethnomethodology versus Grounded Theory 
   To conclude 
   Some major points 
   Recommended reading

Chapter 8 Doing ethnomethodological studies

   Instructed actions 
   Do-It-Yourself 
   Instructed hearing of bird songs 
   Teaching ‘observation’ 
       Using a camera 
       Pedestrian traffic streams 
       Discussion 
   Gaining understanding of a closed world 
   Using  ‘paired novices’ 
   A workplace study 
   Access and rendition 
   Recommended reading

Chapter 9 Reflections

   Three types of research purpose 
   The problem of ‘generalities’ 
   Ethnomethodological indifference? 
   Final reflections

Appendix: Transcription conventions References