Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences (4th Edition)

About this book

This book offers the most comprehensive coverage of qualitative techniques of any book on the market today and does it in a way that is easy to read and follow. The authors central purpose remains a desire to instruct inexperienced researchers in ways of effectively collecting organizing and making sense of qualitative data while stressing the importance of ethics in research and in taking the time to properly design and think through any research endeavor. After reading this book fledgling researchers should be able to design collect and analyze data and then present their results to the scientific community. Considers seven different data collection strategies in detail. Describes focus group interviewing one of the fastest growing styles of data collection in detail (Ch. 5) including a new Moderators Guide that provides the inexperienced focus group facilitator with a step-by-step guide to how the interview should be conducted. Maintains the emphasis on ethics in research (Ch. 3) including a new section on the Presidents apology for the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. For anyone in the social sciences who needs to develop research methodology.