Doing Qualitative Research: Circles Within Circles

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ISBN: 9781850008149 | 1850008140
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Copyright: 4/1/1991

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This is designed for those learning qualitative research and those more advanced in the field. It focuses on understanding both the cognitive processes of qualitative research and the affective "feel" engendered.

Grounding

(9)

Starting

(32)

Introducing Margot and This Chapter

(1)

The Beginning

(3)

Snapshot

(1)

The Plunge

(2)

Expectations

(2)

Entering the Field as an Ongoing Proposition

(14)

Too Close to Home

(4)

What Was That Question Again?

(3)

Letting Go: Trusting the Process

(3)

The Support Group: The Tie That Binds

(2)

Postscript

(4)

Doing

(66)

Introducing Ann and This Chapter

(1)

Participant Observation

(15)

Choosing a Participant Observer Role

(4)

Beginning Observation with Wide Focus

(1)

Becoming `The Other'

(1)

Prolonged Engagement

(3)

Concern for Objectivity

(1)

What Was That Question Again? Again

(3)

Interviewing

(12)

Beginning Challenges

(1)

Staying Out---Staying In

(3)

About Questioning

(6)

Logs

(13)

Beginning the Log

(2)

Log Format and Content

(7)

Analytic Memos

(2)

Audiotaping and Videotaping

(4)

Ongoing Data Analysis

(4)

Computers as Aids in Analysis

(1)

Leaving the Field

(2)

Keeping the Door Open

(1)

Establishing Trustworthiness

(6)

The Shock of Recognition

(1)

In the Act: Working toward Credibility

(4)

Support Group: The Life Line

(3)

Postscript

102

(5)

Coda

104

(3)

Feeling

107

(32)

Introducing Teri and This Chapter

107

(2)

Facing the Fears

109

(3)

Emotional Connections

112

(9)

Too Close for Comfort

113

(6)

Too Far for Comfort

119

(2)

Self-Awareness

121

(3)

Making the Familiar Unfamiliar

124

(3)

Making the Unfamiliar Familiar

127

(5)

Is Qualitative Research for You?

132

(4)

Flexibility

132

(2)

Humor

134

(1)

Accepting Ambiguity

135

(1)

Empathy

136

(1)

Accepting One's Emotions

136

(1)

Postscript

136

(3)

Interpreting

139

(40)

Introducing Diane and This Chapter

139

(1)

The Final Analysis of Data

140

(16)

Getting Started

140

(2)

Approaches to Analysis

142

(1)

Applying Thinking Units

143

(2)

Establishing Categories

145

(2)

Creating Organizing Systems for Analysis and Applying Existing Systems

147

(3)

Developing Themes

150

(3)

Developing Vignettes/Constructs

153

(2)

Including Numbers

155

(1)

Return to Trustworthiness

156

(11)

Back to the Field

156

(2)

When Is Enough Enough?

158

(1)

Negative Case Analysis

159

(2)

Peer Involvement in the Research Process

161

(4)

Member-Checking

165

(2)

Making the Story

167

(9)

Finding a Voice

168

(1)

Creating a Narrative

169

(4)

Narrative Devices

173

(1)

Revising

174

(1)

Personal Work Strategies

175

(1)

Postscript

176

(3)

Reflecting

179

(48)

Introducing Margaret and This Chapter

179

(1)

Metaphors for Qualitative Research

180

(13)

Learning Qualitative Methods and Attitudes

182

(4)

Life-as-Research/Research-as-Life

186

(5)

Transformation of Self during the Qualitative Process

191

(2)

Researchers---Interactive, Open to Change

193

(5)

Research as a Transactional Process

196

(2)

Qualitative Research and Professional Growth

198

(12)

Shouting across Paradigmatic Rifts

210

(8)

Talking with Those outside Academia

211

(2)

Talking with Those inside Academia

213

(5)

Qualitative Research as an Ethical Endeavor

218

(9)

Concerns for the Integrity of the Study

219

(3)

Concerns for Impacts on the Participants

222

(5)

Epilogue: Margot's Last Word

227

(6)

References

233

(6)

Colleague Contributors

239

(2)

Name Index

241

(3)

Subject Index

244

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