Book Review | Qualitative Research in Action: A Canadian Primer

Abstract

Second edition. 1. Introduction -- Qualitative Research -- About This Book -- 2. Asking Questions and Identifying Goals -- Underlying Assumptions -- The Research Process Generic Social Processes -- Research Questions -- 3. Strategies for Designing Research -- Origins of Qualitative Studies -- Where to Find Ideas for Research Topics -- How to Begin Your Own Study -- 4. Ethics on the Ground: A Moral Compass -- Will C. van den Hoonaard -- Ethical Principles of Research in Canada -- Applying the Principles of Ethics to Qualitative Research -- Developing a Research Question -- Fieldwork -- Interviews and Transcriptions -- Content Analysis -- Analyzing Data -- Ethics in the Digital Age -- Writing Up Research -- 5. Observing Social Life through Field Research -- Historical Antecedents of Contemporary Field Work -- Conducting a Field Study -- 6. In-Depth Interviewing -- Standardized Interviews -- In-Depth Interviews -- Conducting an In-Depth Interview Study -- After the Interview -- Email Interviews -- 7. Unobtrusive Research -- Analyzing Pre-existing Documents -- Analyzing Documents of Social Institutions -- Analyzing Media Content and Reflections of Reality -- Analyzing Physical Objects -- 8. New Directions in Qualitative Research -- Discourse Analysis -- Narrative Analysis -- Autoethnography -- Ethnodramas -- Visual Sociology -- Virtual Ethnography -- 9. Trust the Process: Analyzing Qualitative Data -- Beginning with Memos -- Coding Interview Transcripts and Field Notes -- From Codes to Generic Social Processes -- 10. Writing Up Qualitative Research -- Getting Started -- Writing Your Report -- Matters of Style -- Cleaning It All Up -- A Word about Plagiarism -- Appendix A: Selected List of Qualitative Research by Canadian Scholars -- Appendix B: Sample Fieldnotes -- Appendix C: Checklist for Research Reports.