A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research / Edition 2

by David Silverman

Overview

In this fabulous little book, David Silverman lays bare what he considers to be good and bad qualitative research and gets readers thinking about how they can come to understand the world and each other better through qualitative methods.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781446252185
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/06/2013
Series:	Very Short, Fairly Interesting & Cheap Books
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	175
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

David Silverman trained as a sociologist at the London School of Economics and the University of California, Los Angeles. He taught for 32 years at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he is now Emeritus Professor in the Sociology Department as well as Visiting Professor in the Business Schools, King's College, London, Leeds University and University of Technology Sydney and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology. He is interested in conversation and discourse analysis and he has researched medical consultations, shelters for homeless people and HIV-test counselling.

He is the author of Doing Qualitative Research (sixth edition, 2022) and A Very Short, Fairly Interesting, Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research (second edition, 2013c). He is the editor of Qualitative Research (fifth edition, 2021) and the Sage series Introducing Qualitative Methods. In recent years, he has offered short, hands-on workshops in qualitative research for universities in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.

Now retired from full-time work, he aims to watch 100 days of county cricket a year. He also enjoys spending time with his grandchildren and great-grandsons as well as voluntary work in an old people's home where he chats and sings with residents.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Preface: Making a Space for This Book
Chapter 1: Innumerable Inscrutable Habits: Why Unremarkable Things Matter
Chapter 2: On Finding and Manufacturing Qualitative Data
Chapter 3: Instances or Sequences?
Chapter 4: Applying Qualitative Research
Chapter 5: The Aesthetics of Qualitative Research: On Bullshit and Tonsils
A Very Short Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

With this book it is Silverman's explicit intention to go beyond basic texts on research methods and elicit an interest in the arguments within the field of qualitative inquiry. In this sense, Silverman has achieved his goal of challenging accepted understandings of qualitative research methods.

Rachel Fang

'This text book lives up to its title. Steering clear of the formulaic approach taken by textbooks, Silverman seeks to challenge some underlying assumptions about the nature of qualitative research....This book comes highly recommended, both for those interested in qualitative research, as well as students who like a challenge
Carole Murphy
Network

‘Clear and incisive, this valuable text needs to be on every qualitative researcher’s bookshelf. What could be handier? I recommend it to anyone in the trade for its seasoned good sense and advice
Jay Gibrium
University of Missouri

‘David Silverman has drawn on his enormous experience in writing, teaching and using qualitative research methods to produce a book that lays bare key dilemmas and confronts questions that qualitative researchers often avoid
Jonathan Potter
Loughborough University

The main strength of this book is its clarity to raise awareness of the implications for carrying out qualitative research. For ungergraduates I would consider this to be an important supplimentary text to have at hand...For expereinced student researchers this is an excellent text to help you raise interesting and searching questions to realise new avenues that could be followed in your qualitative research
Simon Kawycz
Journal of Qualitative Research in Sports Studies

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