Table of Contents

1. Introduction - Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln
I. METHODS OF COLLETING AND ANALYZING EMPIRICAL MATERIALS
2. The Interview: From Structured Questions to Negotiated Text - Andrea Fontana and James H. Frey
3. Rethinking Observation: From Method to Context - Michael V. Angrosino and Kimberly A. Mays de Perez
4. The Interpretation of Documents and Material Culture - Ian Hodder
5. Reimagining Visual Methods: Galileo to Neuromancer - Douglas Harper
6. Autoethnography, Personal Narrative, Reflexivity: Researcher as Subject - Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P. Bochner
7. Data Management and Analysis Methods - Gery W. Ryan and H. Russell Bernard
8. Software and Qualitative Research - Eben A. Weitzman
9. Analyzing Talk and Text - David Silverman
10. Focus Groups in Feminist Research - Esther Madriz
11. Applied Ethnography - Erve Chambers
II. THE ART AND PRACTICES OF INTERPRETATION, EVALUATION, AND REPRESENTATION
12. The Problem of Criteria in the Age of Relativism - John K. Smith and Deborah K. Deemer
13. The Practices and Politics of Interpretation - Norman K. Denzin
14. Writing: A Method of Inquiry - Laurel Richardson
15. Anthropological Poetics - Ivan Brady
16. Understanding Social Programs Through Evaluation - Jennifer C. Greene
17. Influencing the Policy Process With Qualitative Research - Ray C. Rist

About the Author

Norman K. Denzin is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. One of the world’s foremost authorities on qualitative research and cultural criticism, he is the author or editor of more than 30 books, including The Qualitative Manifesto; Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire; Reading Race; Interpretive Ethnography; The Cinematic Society; The Alcoholic Self; and a trilogy on the American West. He is past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, co-editor of six editions of the landmark SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, co-editor (with Michael D. Giardina) of 18 books on qualitative inquiry, co-editor (with Yvonna S. Lincoln and Michael D. Giardina) of the methods journal Qualitative Inquiry, founding editor of Cultural Studies?Critical Methodologies and International Review of Qualitative Research, editor of four book series, and founding director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. 



Yvonna S. Lincoln is Professor Emerita at Texas A&M University, where she held the Ruth Harrington Chair of Educational Leadership and was Distinguished Professor of Higher Education. She is the coeditor of the journal Qualitative Inquiry, coeditor of the first through six editions of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, and coeditor of The SAGE Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies. As well, she is the coauthor, editor, or coeditor of more than a half dozen other books and volumes. She has served as the President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education and the American Evaluation Research Association, and as the Vice President for Division J (Postsecondary Education) for the American Educational Research Association. She is the author of coauthor of more than 100 chapters and journal articles on aspects of higher education or qualitative research methods and methodologies. 

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