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| BibType | BOOK |
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| Author(s) | Paul ten Have |
| Title | Understanding qualitative research and ethnomethodology |
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| Publisher | Sage Publications |
| Year | 2004 |
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| City | London |
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| ISBN | 0761966846; 0761966854 |
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Abstract
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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.
Key features of the book include:
A broad coverage - includes discussions of interviewing, the use of documents, ethnography, and methods of data analysis An understanding of different research traditions and illustrations of how these may be used in practice Concise chapter summaries and further reading sections to aid student learning With a student-friendly structure, this engaging book will be an invaluable resource for both students and researchers across the social sciences. http://www.sagepub.co.uk/book.aspx?pid=104889 Contents
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
