Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences (8th Edition)

Qualitative Research Methods - collection, organization, and analysis strategies

This text shows novice researchers how to design, collect, and analyze qualitative data and then present their results to the scientific community.

The book stresses the importance of ethics in research and taking the time to properly design and think through any research endeavor.

Learning Goals

Upon completing this book, readers should be able to:

• Effectively design, collect, organize, and analyze data and then to present results to the scientific community
• Use the Internet as both a resource and a means for accessing qualitative data
• Explore current issues in the world of researchers, which include a serious concern about ethical behavior and protocols in research and a more reflexive and sensitive role for the researcher
• Recognize the importance of ethical concerns before they actually begin the research collection, organization, and analytic process
• Understand basic elements associated with researcher reflexivity and research voice

• The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande
• America's Courts and the Criminal Justice System
• Basics of Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology
• Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches
• Promoting Community Change: Making It Happen in the Real World
• Interviewing for Qualitative Inquiry: A Relational Approach
• Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography, Second Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
• Writing in Sociology
• Modes of Thinking for Qualitative Data Analysis
• The Process of Social Research