Qualitative Researching with Text, Image and Sound A Practical Handbook for Social Research |
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| Editor:
| Bauer, Martin W.
Gaskell, George D. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7619-6481-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2000 |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications, Limited
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $94.00 |
Book Description:
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`This excellent text will introduce advanced students - and remind senior researchers - of the availability of a broad range of techniques available for the systematic analysis of social data that is not numeric. It makes the key point that neither quantitative nor qualitative methods are interpretive and at the same time demonstrates once and for all that neither a constructivist perspective nor a qualitative approach needs to imply abandonment of rigor. That the chapters are written...
More Description`This excellent text will introduce advanced students - and remind senior researchers - of the availability of a broad range of techniques available for the systematic analysis of social data that is not numeric. It makes the key point that neither quantitative nor qualitative methods are interpretive and at the same time demonstrates once and for all that neither a constructivist perspective nor a qualitative approach needs to imply abandonment of rigor. That the chapters are written by different authors makes possible a depth of expertise within each that is unusually strong′ -
Susanna Hornig Priest, Texas A&M University; Author of `Doing Media Research′
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