Chapter 1 : Introduction to a Variety of Qualitative Research Methods -- Chapter 2: Action Research -- Chapter 3: Actor-network Theory -- Chapter 4: Affinity Research Approach -- Chapter 5: Appreciative Inquiry -- Chapter 6: Archival Research -- Chapter 7: Arts based Inquiry -- Chapter 8: Asset Mapping -- Chapter 9: Autoethnography -- Chapter 10: Biographic Narrative Interpretive Method -- Chapter 11: Case Study -- Chapter 12: Coding Qualitative Data -- Chapter 13: Comparative Analysis -- Chapter 14: Content Analysis -- Chapter 15: Critical Ethnography -- Chapter 16: Critical Race Theory -- Chapter 17: Critical Theory -- Chapter 18: Cultural Domain Analysis -- Chapter 19: Decolonizing Methodologies: A Pacific Island Lens -- Chapter 20: Decolonizing Autoethnography -- Chapter 21: Deliberative Public Engagement -- Chapter 22: Discursive Positioning -- Chapter 23: Document Analysis -- Chapter 24: Duo-ethnographic Methodology -- Chapter 25: Electronic Delphi Method -- Chapter 26: Embodied Research Methodologies -- Chapter 27: Ethnomethodology -- Chapter 28: Faafaletui Framework -- Chapter 29: Facet Theory Research Approach -- Chapter 30: Feminist Autoethnography -- Chapter 31: Focus Groups -- Chapter 32: Force-field Analysis -- Chapter 33: Grounded Theory -- Chapter 34: Harnessing Insights with NVivo -- Chapter 35: Hermeneutics -- Chapter 36: Hermeneutic Phenomenology -- Chapter 37: Indigenous Métissage -- Chapter 38: Indigenous Participatory Action Research (PAR) -- Chapter 39: Interpretation and Expert Panels -- Chapter 40: Interpretive Analysis -- Chapter 41: Interpretive Description -- Chapter 42: Institutional Ethnography -- Chapter 43: Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis -- Chapter 44: Kakala Research Framework -- Chapter 45: Kaupapa Maori -- Chapter 46: Life History Narrative -- Chapter 47: Manual Transcription -- Chapter 48: Melanesian Tok Stori Research -- Chapter 49: Métissage -- Chapter 50: Metaphor Analysis -- Chapter 51: Narrative Inquiry -- Chapter 52: Naturalistic Decision-Making Method -- Chapter 53: Nominal Group Research -- Chapter 54: Observational Study -- Chapter 55: Online Focus Groups -- Chapter 56: Participatory Learning and Action -- Chapter 57: Phenomenography -- Chapter 58: Phenomenological Studies -- Chapter 59: Photo Elicitation Interviews -- Chapter 60: Photo Voice -- Chapter 61: Portraiture -- Chapter 62: Qualitative Longitudinal Research -- Chapter 63: Realist Analysis -- Chapter 64: Reception Theory -- Chapter 65: Reflective Journaling -- Chapter 66: Reflexive Bracketing -- Chapter 67: Rhizoanalysis -- Chapter 68: Situational Analysis/SWOT -- Chapter 69: Social Network Analysis -- Chapter 70: Structural Narrative Analysis -- Chapter 71: Symbolic Interactionism -- Chapter 72: Thematic Analysis -- Chapter 73: Transect Walk Research Method -- Chapter 74: Videovoice -- Chapter 75:World Cafe -- Chapter 75: Conclusion.
Summary:
This book is a compilation of more than 70 qualitative research concepts that are used by researchers and practitioners in the social sciences and humanities. The concepts include methods and methodologies applied in qualitative research in various contexts. Each concept is a standalone chapter that is authored by a researcher or practitioner who has had some scholarly experience with it. The chapters are alphabetized using the titles of the concepts to provide easy access for readers. They follow a prescribed outline which ensures homogeneity in the layout of the book. Each chapter starts with a brief historical background of the concept, followed by a concise description of the concept, and the process used in its application. Readers are then provided with the possible ways in which the concept can be used, and its benefits. Each chapter concludes by providing readers with some strengths and limitations of the concept.
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