Description

This is the perfect book for any student new to qualitative research. In this exciting and major updating of his bestselling, benchmark text, David Silverman walks the reader through the basics of gathering and analysing qualitative data.

In this fourth edition of Interpreting Qualitative Data, Silverman offers beginners the kinds of hands on training necessary for them to get the best out of their research methods course and enables the reader to navigate successfully their own undergraduate research project.

New to the fourth edition:

• A new chapter on data analysis dealing with major contemporary approaches (e.g. grounded theory, discourse analysis and narrative analysis)

• An expanded chapter on quality issues which now includes advice on how to read and use research reports

• Further worked-through examples of  different kinds of data and how to interpret them

• A separate section on focus groups and interpreting focus group data

• An expanded ethics chapter

• More coverage of digital media and photographs as data

This fourth edition is also accompanied with its own group page on www.methodspace.com/group/silverman, where users can give feedback and discuss research issues.