Questioning Qualitative Inquiry: Critical Essays / Edition 1

by Martyn Hammersley

Overview

Provocative essays on current developments and debates that are essential reading for anyone interested in the future of qualitative research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412935159
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/30/2008
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	216
Sales rank:	226,257
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Martyn Hammersley is an emeritus professor of educational and social research at The Open University, UK. He has carried out research in the sociology of education and the sociology of the media. However, much of his work has been concerned with the methodological issues surrounding social enquiry. He has written several books including (with Paul Atkinson) Ethnography: Principles in Practice (fourth edition, Routledge, 2019), The Dilemma of Qualitative Method (Routledge, 1989), The Politics of Social Research (SAGE, 1995), Reading Ethnographic Research (second edition, Longman, 1997), Taking Sides in Social Research (Routledge, 2000), Educational Research, Policymaking and Practice, (London, Paul Chapman/SAGE, 2002), Questioning Qualitative Inquiry (SAGE, 2008), Methodology Who Needs It? (SAGE, 2011), The Myth of Research-Based Policy and Practice (SAGE, 2013), The Limits of Social Science (SAGE, 2014), and The Concept of Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Website: http://martynhammersley.wordpress.com/

Table of Contents

Introduction
Dentists, Dadaists or Discourse Analysts?
On the Failings of Qualitative Inquiry
Capturing Complexity? An Examination of a Common Rationale for Qualitative Research
On Thick Description
Interpreting Geertz
The Critical Case of Analytic Induction
Assessing the Radical Critique of Interviews - with Roger Gomm
Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis
Methods or Paradigms?
The Dadaist Alternative
"Postmodernist" Qualitative Research
Is Qualitative Research Just Rhetoric?
Validity Criteria for Qualitative Research
Are They Possible or even Desirable?

Editorial Reviews

'Written in Hammersley's usual considered style and is pitched perfectly for post-graduate students, and teachers of advanced methods courses but alos for early career researchers still unclear of which direction they face within the contemporary landscape and proliferarting 'schools' of qualitative research' -
Rob Smith,
Cardiff University, for Qualitative Research

'Questioning Qualitative Inquiry is essential reading for both post-graduate student confronted by overwhelming methodological pluralism and the established scholar sitting comfortably in their ontological comfort-zone'
L. da Costa & Sam Hillyard, ,
Durham University, for Qualitative Research

'The critiques in Hammersley’s collection of essays have an even-handed rigour. Analyses of different approaches to developing knowledge about the social move between the nitty-gritty of method and exegetical discussion of philosophies behind different approaches'
Anita Naoko Pilgrim
University of Glamorgan for Qualitative Research

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