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Doing Qualitative Research

Fifth Edition
by David Silverman

Student Resources

  1. How to use this book
  2. What You Can (and Can’t) Do with Qualitative Research
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  3. Focusing a Research Project
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  4. Ethical Research
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  5. What Counts as ‘Originality’?
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  6. Research Design
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  7. Using Theories
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  8. Formulating a Research Question
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  9. Choosing a Methodology
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  10. Writing a Research Proposal
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  11. Making Good Use of Your Supervisor
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  12. Getting Feedback
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  13. How many cases do you need?
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  14. Collecting Your Data
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  15. Developing Data Analysis
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  16. Using Computers to Analyse Qualitative Data
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  17. Quality in Qualitative Research
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  18. Evaluating Qualitative Research
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  19. Effective Qualitative Research
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  20. Audiences
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  21. The First Few Pages
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  22. The Literature Review Chapter
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  23. The Methodology Chapter
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  24. The Data Chapters
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  25. The Concluding Chapter
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  26. Surviving an Oral Examination
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  27. Getting Published
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Read

read iconRead the research: Find top research articles to cite and enrich your reading with your ready-made bibliography of qualitative research from SAGE journals.

Case Study Rationale I

Flyvbjerg, B. (2006). Five Misunderstandings about Case-Study Research. Qualitative Inquiry, Vol 12, Issue 2, pp. 219 – 245.

Case Study Rationale II

Ruddin, L. (2006). You Can Generalize Stupid! Social Scientists, Bent Flyvbjerg, and Case Study Methodology. Qualitative Inquiry, Volume 12 Issue 4, pp. 797-812

Three Ways to Generalize

Halkier, B. (2011). Methodological Practicalities in Analytical Generalization. Qualitative Inquiry, Vol 17(9) pp. 787–797. 

Ethnographic Generalizations

Small, M.L. (2009). ‘How Many Cases Do I Need?’ On Science and the Logic of Case Selection in Field-Based Research. Ethnography, Vol 10, Issue 1, pp. 5 – 38.

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