Critical Issues in Qualitative Research Methods / Edition 1

by Janice Morse, Janice M. Morse

Overview

The issues of soundness of qualitative research are examined in this book. Contributors discuss how a researcher does qualitative research, considering such questions as: whether one deviates from the developer's protocol and what the ramifications are of such deviation, how students learn to acquire the conceptual skills necessary to conduct qualitative inquiry, and how theory "emerges" from the data.

The book discusses group effect in focus groups and describes an observational method using videotaped data. The various schools of phenomenology and their major characteristics of excellence are explained, and the Glasserian and Straussian methods of grounded theory are compared. Issues of ethics and scientific integrity are also raised. Each chapter, dealing with a matter that has not yet been resolved or addressed in the literature, is preceded by a dialogue in which contributors raise questions and comment upon the concept presented.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803950436
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	11/18/1993
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

Janice M. Morse, Ph D (Nurs), Ph D (Anthro), FAAN is a professor and Presidential Endowed Chair at the University of Utah College of Nursing, and Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Canada., from 1991-1996, she also held a position as professor at The Pennsylvania State University. From 1997-2007, she was the founding Director and Scientific Director of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, University of Alberta, founding editor for the International Journal of Qualitative Methods, and Editor of the Qual Press monograph series. She remains the founding editor for Qualitative Health Research, (now in Volume 2, Sage1), is currently editor for the monograph series Developing Qualitative Inquiry, and The Essentials of Qualitative Inquiry (Left Coast Press). Her research programs are in the areas of suffering and comforting, preventing patient falls, and developing qualitative methods. In 2011, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement in Qualitative Inquiry from the International Center for Qualitative Inquiry, was an inaugural inductee into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame (2010), the 5th recipient of the Episteme Award (also Sigma Theta Tau). She received awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Newcastle (Australia) and Athabasca University (Canada). She is the author of 460 articles and chapters and 19 books on qualitative research methods, suffering, comforting and patient falls.

Table of Contents

Dialogue
On Origins
Qualitative Research - Janice M Morse
Fact or Fantasy?
Dialogue
On Learning Qualitative Methods
Abstract Knowing - Katharyn A May
The Case for Magic in Method
Dialogue
More on Theory
'Emerging from the Data' - Janice M Morse
The Cognitive Processes of Analysis in Qualitative Inquiry
Dialogue
The Democracy of Interpretation
The Proof Is in the Pottery - Margarete Sandelowski
Toward a Poetic for Qualitative Inquiry
Dialogue
On Qualitatively Derived Intervention
Inside the Black Box - Janice M Swanson and Linda Chapman
Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Conducting Evaluation Research Using a Qualitative Approach
Basic Versus Applied Ethnography
Evaluation Criteria and Critique of Qualitative Research Studies - Madeleine Leininger
Dialogue
Good Phenomenology is...
The Richness of Phenomenology - Marilyn A Ray
Philosophic, Theoretic and Methodologic Concerns
Dialogue
Clarifying Phenomenological Methods
Schools of Phenomenology - Marlene Zichi Cohen and Anna Omery
Implications for Research
Dialogue
On Emic and Etic
Styles of Ethnography - Joyceen S Boyle
Dialogue
Sorting Out the Styles...
On the Evaluation of Ethnographies - Majorie A Muecke
Dialogue
More on Muddling Methods
Eroding Grounded Theory - Phyllis Noerager Stern
Dialogue
Questions About Focus Groups
The Group Effect in Focus Groups - Martha Ann Carey
Planning, Implementing, and Interpreting Focus Group Research
Dialogue
Using Videotaped Data
Using Videotaped Recordings in Qualitative Research - Joan L Bottorff
Dialogue
On Mentoring
Secondary Analysis in Qualitative Research - Sally Thorne
Issues and Implications
Dialogue
On Writing It Up
Qualitative Research Methods From the Reviewer's Perspective - Melanie Dreher
Dialogue
Researcher-Participant Relationships
Research and Therapeutic Interviews - Sally Hutchinson and Holly Wilson
A Poststructuralist Perspective
Dialogue
On Being a Stranger in the Field
Research Teams - Toni Tripp-Reimer et al
Possibilities and Pitfalls in Collaborative Qualitative Research
Dialogue
The Politics of Writing
Ethical Issues in Ethnography - Juliene G Lipson
Dialogue
Sloppy Science
Promoting Academic Integrity in Qualitative Research - Kathleen A Knafl