Authors:Kimberly D Elsbach, Beth A Bechky,
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Keywords: qualitative, research, volume, organization, conference, papers, organizational, davis
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 2009-09-03
List price: $85.99
ISBN-10: 1607522306
ISBN-13: 9781607522300

Over the past ten years, the Davis Conference on Qualitative Research has become the world’s leading conference for qualitative researchers in organizational studies. The authors of the "Best Presentation Awards" at the Davis Conference from the past four years have contributed chapters to this volume. These papers cover topics ranging from organizational name changes and organizational afterlife, to the use of written letters to build relationships and the use of a ’creative foil’ to improve one’s leadership image. Yet all of these papers are similar in that they benef

Authors:Kimberly D Elsbach, Beth A Bechky,
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Keywords: qualitative, research, volume, organization, conference, papers, organizational, davis
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 2009-09-03
List price: $45.99
ISBN-10: 1607522292
ISBN-13: 9781607522294

A volume in Qualitative Organization Research Series Editor(s): Jean M. Bartunek, Boston College; Kimberly D. Elsbach, University of California - Davis and John A. Wagner, Michigan State University Over the past ten years, the Davis Conference on Qualitative Research has become the world’s leading conference for qualitative researchers in organizational studies. The authors of the "Best Presentation Awards" at the Davis Conference from the past four years have contributed chapters to this volume. These papers cover topics ranging from organizational name changes and organizational

Author: David L. Altheide
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: qualitative, methods, research, analysis, media
Number of Pages: 87
Published: 1996-03-21
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 076190199X
ISBN-13: 9780761901990

In order to prepare a successful research project, a qualitative researcher often must consult various types of media documents. How to obtain, categorize and analyze these different media documents is the subject of this book. The author looks at traditional primary documents such as newspapers and magazines, but also at more recent forms like television newscasts and cyberspace.

Author: Paul J. Maginn
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Keywords: qualitative, methodology, studies, analysis, housing
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2008-10-13
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 1846639905
ISBN-13: 9781846639906

This new volume provides a theoretical and empirical perspective on the value, potential and contribution that qualitative research methodologies bring to the analysis of housing policy issues within an international context. This encompasses key housing issues, including: the meaning and significance of home; homelessness; resident participation; housing renewal and gentrification; socially mixed housing communities; Irish Gypsies; and post-apartheid housing policies. The book also includes discussion of specific methodological challenges and ethical dilemmas faced by researchers (and policy-

Author: Martha S. Feldma
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: qualitative, methods, research, data, strategies, interpreting
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 1994-09-16
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0803959168
ISBN-13: 9780803959163

Martha S Feldman’s invaluable text outlines four key strategies for interpreting qualitative data: ethnomethodology, semiotics, dramaturgy and deconstruction. The author examines the strengths and weaknesses of each strategy and identifies when to use them. To demonstrate, she applies the techniques of each method to a single data set, highlighting the differences in results.

Author: Dr Max Traver
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: qualitative, methods, series, introducing, studies, research, case
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2001-07-23
List price: $53.95
ISBN-10: 0761968067
ISBN-13: 9780761968061

Although most undergraduates are able to collect qualitative data without too much difficulty, they are often less successful in turning this into an interesting, theoretically-informed analysis.Qualitative Research Through Case Studies will help students improve the quality of their work through introducing a wide range of traditions, including interpretive approaches such as grounded theory, dramaturgical analysis, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis and political approaches such as critical discourse analysis, feminism and postmodern ethnography.Each chapter introduces the theoretica

Author: Amir Marvasti
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: qualitative, series, methods, sociology, research, introducing
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2003-12-03
List price: $51.95
ISBN-10: 0761948619
ISBN-13: 9780761948612

’The book is an extremely valuable resource for students and new researchers who embark on qualitative research in sociology and the social sciences. It will be a valuable source for those who teach qualitative research methods in not only the social sciences but also in other disciplines, including health science. I wholeheartedly recommend this book’ - Australian Journal of Primary Health Qualitative Research in Sociology offers a hands-on guide to doing qualitative research in sociology. It provides an introductory survey of the methodological and theoretical dimensions of q