Qualitative research design : an interactive approach /

Are you thinking about doing a qualitative study, or currently in the middle of one? If so, Joseph A. Maxwell's Qualitative Research Design is the reliable guide for you. Taking a hands-on, innovative approach to qualitative design, it emphasizes the components of a design and how these interac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maxwell, Joseph Alex, 1941-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1996], ©1996
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : c1996
Series:Applied social research methods series v. 41
Applied social research methods series; v. 41
Applied social research methods series ; v. 41
Applied social research methods series
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 A Model for Qualitative Research Design
  • 2. Purposes: Why Are You Doing This Study?
  • 3. Conceptual Context: What Do You Think Is Going On?
  • 4. Research Questions: What Do You Want to Understand?
  • 5. Methods: What Will You Actually Do?
  • 6. Validity: How Might You Be Wrong?
  • 7. Research Proposals: Presenting and Justifying a Qualitative Study
  • Appendix A: An Example of a Qualitative Proposal
  • Appendix B: Recommended Resources.
  • A model for qualitative research design
  • Purposes: why are you doing this study?
  • Conceptual context: what do you think is going on?
  • Research questions: what do you want to understand?
  • Methods: what will you actually do?
  • Validity: how might you be wrong?
  • Research proposals: presenting and justifying a qualitative study
  • Appendix A: An example of qualitative proposal
  • Appendix B: recommended resources