Qualitative inquiry and research design: choosing among five approaches
/ John W. Creswell
- 3 rd ed.
- London : Sage Publications, 2013
- xxi, 448 p.: col. ill.; 25 cm.
Originally published in print: 2013.
Includes references
Introduction Philosophical assumptions and interpretive frameworks Designing a qualitative study Five qualitative approaches to inquiry Five different qualitative studies Introducing and focusing the study Data collection Data analysis and representation Writing a qualitative study Standards of validation and evaluation "Turning the story" and conclusion
This text compares and contrasts the five major qualitative traditions: biography, case study, ethnography, grounded theory, and phenomenology. Five actual journal articles are reproduced in the appendix as examples of the different research designs
eng.
1412995302 TZS 89,451/= 9781412995306
Social Sciences methods Social sciences Methodology Qualitative studies Validation and evaluation--qualitative studies Research proposal structure Data anaysis Data interpretation --codes and themes