Beschreibung:
This is a broad and accessible handbook in qualitative methods that gives you clear and concise answers to these questions - and many more. The book can be used both in introductory university courses, where you as a student encounter questions of method for perhaps the first time, right up to Master's thesis level.
Preface to the English edition 1. Introduction Part 1: Method 2. Why method? 3. What is qualitative method? 4. What is theory? 5. What is data? Part 2: Writing 6. What is a thesis? 7. What is a problem? 8. What is a reference? 9. What is a scientific language? 10. What is write-work? Part 3: Fieldwork 11. What is sampling? 12. What is triangulation and crystallization? 13. What is a case study? 14. What is an interview? 15. What is a focus group? 16. What is an observation? 17. What is ethnography? Part 4: At the desk 18. What is an analysis? 19. What is critique? 20. What is quality? 21. Conclusion 22. Further reading