Qualitative Research ：Studying How Things Work

Publication subTitle ：Studying How Things Work

Author： Stake> Robert E.  

Publisher： Guilford Publications Inc‎

Publication year： 2010

E-ISBN: 9781606235485

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781606235461

Subject： C0 Social Science Theory and Methodology

Keyword： 心理学,护理学,临床医学,社会科学理论与方法论,教育学,教育

Language： ENG

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This book provides invaluable guidance for thinking through and planning a qualitative study. Rather than offering recipes for specific techniques, master storyteller Robert Stake stimulates readers to discover "how things work" in organizations, programs, communities, and other systems. Topics range from identifying a research question to selecting methods, gathering data, interpreting and analyzing the results, and producing a well-thought-through written report. In-depth examples from actual studies emphasize the role of the researcher as instrument and interpreter, while boxed vignettes and learning projects encourage self-reflection and critical thinking. Other useful pedagogical features include quick-reference tables and charts, sample project management forms, and an end-of-book glossary. After reading this book, doctoral students and novice qualitative researchers will be able to plan a study from beginning to end.

Chapter

Cover

Contents

Introduction: Make Yourself Comfortable

1. Qualitative Research: How Things Work

1.1. The Science of the Particular

1.2. Professional Knowledge

1.3. Individual Experience and Collective Knowledge

1.4. The Methods of Qualitative Research

1.5. Causes

1.6. The Thing

1.7. Comparing Things

1.8. Weaknesses of Qualitative Research

1.9. Essence of the Qualitative Approach

2. Interpretation: The Person as Instrument

2.1. Interpretive Research

2.2. Microinterpretation and Macrointerpretation

2.3. Empathy

2.4. Thick Description and Verstehen

2.5. Context and Situation

2.6. Skepticism

2.7. Emphasis on Interpretation

3. Experiential Understanding: Most Qualitative Study

Is Experiential 3.1. The Places of Human Activity

3.2. Criterial and Experiential Description

3.3. Emphasizing Personal Experience

3.4. Multiple Realities

3.5. Bringing in the Experience of Others

4. Stating the Problem: Questioning How This Thing Works

4.1. First the Question, Then the Methods

4.2. Laying Out Your Study

4.3. A Librarian Thinking of a Design

4.4. Design for Studying How This Case Works

4.5. Raising and Answering Questions

5. Methods: Gathering Data

5.1. Observing

5.2. Interviewing

5.3. Exhibit Questions

5.4. Survey

5.5. Keeping Records

6. Review of Literature: Zooming to See the Problem

6.1. Refining the Problem to Be Studied

6.2. Concept Mapping

6.3. Representing the Field

6.4. Building upon the Nearby Studies

6.5. Finding the Literature

7. Evidence: Bolstering Judgment and Reconnoitering

7.1. Evidence-Based Decision Making

7.2. Unbearable Lightness of Evidence

7.3. Triangulation

7.4. Mixed Methods and Confidence

7.5. Member Checking

7.6. Review Panels

7.7. Progressive Focusing

8. Analysis and Synthesis: How Things Work

8.1. Taking Apart and Putting Together

8.2. Working with Patches

8.3. Interpretation and Sorting

9. Action Research and Self-­E valuation: Finding on Your Own

9.2. Evaluation

9.3. Studying Your Own Place

9.4. Bias

9.5. Assertions

10. Storytelling: Illustrating How Things Work

10.1. Vignettes

10.2. Elements of Story

10.3. Story versus a Collage of Patches

10.4. Multiple Case Research

11. Writing the Final Report: An Iterative Convergence

11.1. The Iterative Synthesis

11.2. The Ukraine Report

11.3. Dualities and the Dialectic

11.4. Particular and General Assertions

11.5. Generalization from Particular Situations

11.6. The Professional View

12. Advocacy and Ethics: Making Things Work Better

12.1. All Research Is Advocative

12.2. A Voice for the Underrepresented

12.3. Personal Ethics

12.4. Protection of Human Subjects

12.5. People Exposed

12.6. Essentials of Qualitative Research

12.7. Looking Forward

Glossary: Meanings for This Book

Bibliography

Author Index

Subject Index

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