On Qualitative Inquiry

In this work, the authors provide the first systematic exploration of the philosophical foundations and the historical development of qualitative inquiry for language and literacy researchers#x14;novices and experts alike.

George Kamberelis is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the State University of New York at Albany Greg Dimitriadis is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the State University of New York at Buffalo

From the NCRLL Editors

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Acknowledgments

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Introduction: Logic and Structure of the Book

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Genealogy: Thinking History Differently

3

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Rhetorical Orientations and Structure of the Book

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Into the Fray: A Practiced and Practical Set of Analytic Strata

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Epistemologies

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Theories

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Approaches

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Strategies

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Indeterminacy and Positioning in Qualitative Inquiry

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Predominant Chronotopes of Qualitative Inquiry

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Why Chronotopes?

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Chronotope I: Objectivism and Representation

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Chronotope II: Reading and Interpretation

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Chronotope III: Skepticism, Conscientization, and Praxis

36

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Chronotope IV: Power/Knowledge and Defamiliarization

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Summary and Conclusions

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A Selective History of Inquiry in Anthropology

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Anthropology in the Twentieth Century: From Sapir to Hymes to Heath and Beyond

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Ethnography of Communication: Linguistics in a New Key

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The Emergence of New Approaches to Research

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Reimagining the Research(er) as an Agent of Change

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Ongoing Proliferations of the Ethnography of Communication Tradition

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Coda: Inquiry Logics and the Ethnography of Communication Tradition

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Responding to the Crisis of Representation: Writing Culture and Beyond

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Beyond the Crisis of Representation: Reimagining the Field and Fieldwork

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Coda: Inquiry Logics in the Wake of the Crises of Representation, Evaluation, and Praxis

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Summary and Conclusions

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A Selective History of Inquiry in Sociology

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Nineteenth-Century Roots: Emile Durkheim and Max Weber

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The Chicago School of Sociology

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Foundationalist/Modernist Strands Within the Chicago School of Sociology

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Coda: Inquiry Logics Within Foundational/Modernist Approaches

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Interpretive Strands of Inquiry Within the Chicago School of Sociology

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Coda: Inquiry Logics Within Interpretive Strands of the Chicago School

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Marxism and the Emergence of Critical Modes of Inquiry

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Sociology as Politics: Remaking the ``Real''

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Discourse and the Production of Reality: Michel Foucault and His Legacy

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Reality as Articulation: From Gramsci to Deleuze and Guarttari

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Coda: Inquiry Logics Within Critical Sociological Theory and Research

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Summary and Conclusions

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Qualitative Inquiry: A Transdisciplinary Metadiscourse

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Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry Revisited: Language and Literacy Exemplars

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Final Thoughts

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Notes

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References

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Index

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About the Authors

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