Chapter 16: The Potential of Qualitative Research

You can find my critique of the unthinking preference for interview data at Silverman (2017):

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1468794116668231

You can read Mannay’s (2010) paper at:

http://qrj.sagepub.com/content/10/1/91.full.pdf+html

In this article, Prior (2008) shows how actor-network theory allows us to think about docu­ment analysis in a theoretically fertile way:

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0038038508094564

In the following paper, Rebecca Shaw and Celia Kitzinger (2007) show what medical staff and pregnant woman can learn from their study of calls to a home birth helpline:

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959353507076553

You can find a helpful review of Maynard’s research by Boyd (2005):

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0261927X05278184

To read more about Gubrium’s version of how to research family life (Gubrium and Holstein, 1993), visit:

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0192513X93014001006

Some of the arguments in this chapter are developed online in Silverman (2013b):

www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/Volume25/QSR_9_2_Silverman.pdf