Crafting Qualitative Research: Beyond Positivist Traditions

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- 1 Qualitative Research as Craft: Beyond Positivist Traditions and Research Styles -- PART I The Interpretive Traditions -- 2 Symbolic Interactionism: Searching for Self and Meaning -- 3 Hermeneutics: The Interpretation of Texts -- 4 Dramaturgy and Dramatism: Social Life as Theater and Stage -- 5 Ethnomethodology: The Accomplishment of Ordinary Lives -- 6 Ethnography: Cultural Understandings of Natives -- PART II Traditions of Deep Structure -- 7 Semiotics and Structuralism: The Grammar of Social Reality -- PART III The Critical Traditions -- 8 Historical Materialism: Class, Conflict, and Domination -- 9 Critical Theory: Hegemony, Knowledge Production, and Communicative Action -- 10 Feminism and Gender Studies: Sex and Sexuality in the Social World -- 11 Structuration and Praxeology: Transcending Dualisms Within Frameworks of Power -- PART IV Traditions of the "Post" -- 12 Postmodernism: Playing With Images and the "Truth" -- 13 Poststructuralism: Discourse, Discipline, and Deconstruction -- 14 Postcolonialism: Unpacking and Resisting Imperialism -- 15 Conclusion: Tradition, Improvisation, and Quality Control -- Bibliography -- Index 9780765641588 0765641585 378 BOOK Electronic books NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-az-jgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Pushkala Prasad
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jun 22, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 378 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0765641585
• | ISBN-13: 9780765641588