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Qualitative Research - A Reader in Philosophy, Core Concepts, and Practice (Hardcover, New edition)
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Qualitative Research - A Reader in Philosophy, Core Concepts, and Practice (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Counterpoints, 354
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We conceived of this book with the idea that critical explorations
into the key philosophical issues in qualitative research could
throw light on distortions, power relations, hidden assumptions and
possibilities within the field, and could ultimately provide the
groundwork for needed change and new directions. We wanted to do
this with rigor, getting underneath the contemporary divisions in
qualitative research, first building up philosophy and core
concepts and then returning to specific practices in qualitative
research. The book, in a way, then, is a statement of hope. We have
seen many promising trends in the last few decades as academics
from the groups who have traditionally been studied and spoken for
in the past - indigenous peoples, women, minorities, gays and
lesbians, for example - make their voices heard, as the "other"
speaks back, and as the uses to which research is put receive more
scrutiny. We see signs that qualitative research may begin to turn
the tables on its own history and become a tool for emancipation
rather than its opposite. The book is divided into five sections
which each focus on different aspects of qualitative methodological
practices and the concepts which are inherent in the practices
themselves. The editors of this book are experienced with
conducting qualitative research and two of the editors teach
multiple university courses on research methodology and the social
and epistemological theories associated with inquiry. Many of the
books available for our courses divide qualitative research into a
number of disparate types and then explain philosophical and
epistemological positions according to those divisions. In our
opinion, such approaches inadequately confront orienting questions
of human knowledge implicit to all forms of social research. We
intend to produce a new book that exemplifies theory and methods in
qualitative research in relation to a sound presentation of
social-theoretical core concepts.
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