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Qualitative Research Methods

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Mills, C. Wright. 1959. The Sociological Imagination. London: Oxford, Appendix: On Intellectual Craftsmanship.

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Gentles, S. J., Charles, C., Ploeg, J., & McKibbon, K. 2015. Sampling in Qualitative Research: Insights from an Overview of the Methods Literature. The Qualitative Report, 20(11), pp. 1772-1789.

Morse, J. M., Barrett, M., Mayan, M., Olson, K., & Spiers, J. 2002. Verification strategies for establishing reliability and validity in qualitative research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 1(2), pp. 13-22.

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Bergman Blix, S., & Wettergren, Å. 2015. The emotional labour of gaining and maintaining access to the field. Qualitative Research, 15(6), pp. 688-704.

Fine, G., & Hallett, T. 2014. Stranger and stranger: creating theory through ethnographic distance and authority. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 3(2), pp. 188-203.

Wästerfors, David (2018). “Observations”, in Flick, Uwe (Ed.). (2017). The SAGE handbook of qualitative data collection. London: SAGE.

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Streck, D. 2007. Research and Social Transformation: Notes about Method and Methodology in Participatory Research. International Journal of Action Research 3(1+2): pp. 112-130.

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Legard, R., Keegan, J., & Ward, K. (2003). In-depth interviews. In Jane
Ritchie and Jane Lewis (eds.) Qualitative research practice: A guide for social science students and researchers, London; Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE: 138-169.

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Elo, S. & Kynga, S H. 2008. The qualitative content analysis process. Journal of Advanced Nursing 62(1), pp. 107–115.

Mayring P. (2000) Qualitative Content Analysis. Forum Qualitative Social Research 1(2): art. 20. http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1089

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Rose, Gillian. 2016. Chapters 1 and 2: “Researching with Visual Materials: A Brief Survey” and “Towards a Critical Visual Methodology”, in Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials (4th Edition), pp. 1-47.

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Kitzinger, J., & Barbour, R. (Eds.). (1999). Developing focus group research: politics, theory and practice. London: Sage. Introduction: 1-20.

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Small Mario L. 2009. “How many Cases do I Need?” On Science and the Logic of Case Selection in Field-Based Research. Ethnography 10(1), pp. 5–38.

Other readings:

Banks, Marcus. 2001. “Encountering the Visual”, in Visual Methods in Social Research, pp. 13-42.

Bengtsson, B. & Hertting, N. 2014. ‘Generalization by Mechanism: Thin Rationality and Ideal-Type Analysis in Case Study Research’, Philosophy of the Social Sciences 44, no. 6, pp. 707–32.

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1991. Language and symbolic power. Cambridge: Polity. Chapter 1, pp. 37-65.

Brinkmann, Svend & Kvale, Steinar. 2005. Confronting the ethics of qualitative research. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 18(2): 157-181.

Cameron, J. 2005. ‘Focussing on the Focus Group’, in Iain Hay (ed.), Qualitative
Research Methods in Human Geography
, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Chapter 8.

Christians, C. 2018. Ethics and Politics in Qualitative Research. In Denzin, N. & Lincoln, Y.S. (Eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research. Fifth edition. Thousand Oaks: Sage, pp. 142-171.

Guba, E. & Lincoln, Y.S. 1994. Competing Paradigms in Qualitative Research. In Denzin, N. & Lincoln, Y.S. (Eds.). Handbook of Qualitative Research. Thousand Oaks: Sage, pp. 105-117.

Kidd, P. & Parshall, M. 2000. Getting the Focus and the Group: Enhancing Analytical Rigor in Focus Group Research. Qualitative Health Research 10, pp. 293-308.

Guest, Greg; Namey, Emily E. and Mitchell, Marilyn L. (2013) Collecting Qualitative Data: A Field Manual for Applied Research. London: Sage. Chapter 3.

Hall, S. (2001) Foucault: Power, Knowledge and Discourse. In Wetherell, Margaret; Taylor, Stephanie; Yates, Simeon J. (eds.) Discourse theory and practice: a reader. London: Sage-Open University, pp. 72-81. (Reprinted from Hall, S. [1997] Representation: cultural representations and signifying practices. London: Sage-Open University.)

Jacobsson, Katarina; Åkerström, Malin. 2012. Interviewees with an agenda: learning from a ‘failed’ interview. Qualitative Research, 13 (6), pp. 717-734.

Katz, J. 2001. From how to why: On luminous description and causal inference in ethnography (Part I). Ethnography, 2(4), pp. 443-473.

Knoblauch, Hubert; Schnettler, Bernt. 2012. “Videography: analysing video data as a ‘focused’ ethnographic and hermeneutical exercise”, Qualitative Research, 12 (3), pp. 334-356

Lewis-Kraus, G. (2016) The Trials of Alice Goffman. New York Times

Lincoln, Y.S.; Lynham, S.A. & Guba, E. 2018. Paradigmatic Controversies, Contradictions, and Emerging Confluences, Revisited. In Denzin, N. & Lincoln, Y.S. (Eds.). Handbook of Qualitative Research. Thousand Oaks: Sage, pp. 213-263.

Martínez, M. (2023) Activist Research as a Methodological Toolbox to Advance Public Sociology. Sociology. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380385231219207

Martínez López, M., and Lorenzi, E. (2012). Autonomous Activist-Research: the Case of the Squatters’ Movement in Madrid. Revista Internacional de Sociologia, 70(2), 165-184

McDonald, S. 2005. Studying actions in context: a qualitative shadowing method for organizational research. Qualitative Research, 5(4), pp. 455-473.

Morris, A. 2015. A Practical Introduction to In-Depth Interviewing. London: Sage. (Chapter 1)

Piven, F. F. 2010. Reflections on scholarship and activism. Antipode 42, pp. 806-10.

Polanska, Dominika & Richard, Åse (2021) Resisting renovictions: Tenants organizing against housing companies’ renewal practices in Sweden. Radical Housing Journal 3(1): 187-205.

Punch, M. 1994. Politics and Ethics in Qualitative Research. In Denzin, N. & Lincoln, Y.S. (Eds.). Handbook of Qualitative Research. Thousand Oaks: Sage, pp. 83-97.

Ragin, Charles C. 1992. “Introduction: Case of “What is a Case? In Ragin, Ch. and Becker (Eds.) What Is a Case? Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry. Cambridge University Press, Chapter 1, pp. 1-17.

Ragin, C. et al (Eds.) (2004) Workshop on Scientific Foundations of Qualitative Research. Arlington: NSF.

Ruiz, Jorge (2017) Collective Production of Discourse: an approach based on the Qualitative School of Madrid. In Barbour, Rosaline S. & Morgan, David L. (eds.) A New Era in Focus Group Research. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 277‐300.

Scott, John, 1990. A matter of records. Documentary sources in social research. Cambridge: Polity, pp. 1-35, 59-82 and 96-143.

Silverman, David (2017) Doing qualitative research. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Skocpol, Theda, 1987. Social History and Historical Sociology: Contrasts and Complementarities. Social Science History, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 17-30.

Song, Miri; Parker, David. 1995. Commonality, difference and the dynamics of disclosure in in-depth interviewing. Sociology, 29(2), pp. 241–56.

Van Dijk, T. 1993. Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis. Discourse and Society 4(2), pp. 249-283.

Wacquant, L. (2002) Scrutinizing the Street: Poverty, Morality, and the Pitfalls of Urban Ethnography. American Journal of Sociology 107(6): 1468–1532.

Wodak, R., & Meyer, M. (Eds.). (2009). Methods for critical discourse analysis. Sage. Chapter 1

Wyly, E. (2011) Positively Radical. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 35(5): 889-912.

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Published: 23 February 2017
Keywords: Theory, Methods