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Book SynopsisSocial researchers increasingly find themselves looking beyond conventional methods to address complex research questions. This is the first book to comprehensively examine emergent qualitative and quantitative theories and methods across the social and behavioral sciences. Providing scholars and students with a way to retool their research choices, the volume presents cutting-edge approaches to data collection, analysis, and representation. Leading researchers describe alternative uses of traditional quantitative and qualitative tools; innovative hybrid or mixed methods; and new techniques facilitated by technological advances. Consistently formatted chapters explore the strengths and limitations of each method for studying different types of research questions and offer practical, in-depth examples.
Trade ReviewA 'must read' for anyone interested in remaining current with developing research techniques. The book provides a wealth of information regarding innovative approaches that will permit the investigation of novel research questions.--Larry Christensen, Chair, Department of Psychology, University of South Alabama
In the rapidly changing domain of qualitative methods, this comprehensive handbook places qualitative inquiry in context and provides a much-needed, in-depth view of the latest developments. The book describes the 'roots' of the major qualitative methods and how they are developing, outlines innovations in research design and analysis, and explores the impact that these developments are having on methods per se. Hesse-Biber and Leavy are to be congratulated for bringing together leaders in the field to create this seminal work, which will have a profound impact on qualitative methods.--Janice M. Morse, Professor and Barnes Presidential Endowed Chair, College of Nursing, University of Utah
Methods determine not only how we see, but also what we can see. This comprehensive handbook details creative new approaches to asking and exploring questions within the social sciences. These approaches offer liberation from the narrowing straits of logical positivistic measurement and quantification, and chart the paths to addressing more socially meaningful questions. They provide means for examining social reality with fresh tools. The range of chapters on different emergent methods will be enlightening to both new and experienced researchers.--Ruthellen Josselson, School of Psychology, Fielding Graduate University
With contributions from both emerging and established methodological scholars, this innovative, engaging work articulates a view of research less as a linear series of stages than as an unfolding and evolving process. This orientation is in tune with changes in theoretical underpinnings of research that underline many contemporary methodological approaches, including participatory, feminist, and other inclusive approaches. Readers are offered fodder for beginning to think outside of the traditional methodological box and for revitalizing such methods as focus group interviewing and oral history. This book will be of value to both novice and more well-established investigators who wish to pursue their research endeavors more flexibly, reflectively, and inclusively.--Bruce L. Berg, Department of Criminal Justice, California State University, Long Beach
Hesse-Biber and Leavy's timely and constructive response to the collapse of disciplinary authority and the postmodern challenge in the social sciences does not take an 'anything goes' position. The editors and their collaborators argue for a principled and rational approach to orchestrating research that welcomes and evaluates a bewildering array of emergent methods in the social sciences. This handbook both provides invaluable, specific guidance to researchers and frames the notion of methodological emergence as a theoretical challenge in its own right.--Davydd J. Greenwood, Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University
This is a powerful and valuable work for anyone involved in social science research. Hesse-Biber and Leavy have called together many experienced writers in qualitative methods to explore the emergent methods so critical to the current time. Whether deconstructing document research, arts-based approaches, or historical methods, or extending our understanding of interviewing, performance ethnography, and participatory approaches, all of the chapters provide greater clarity about how we do what we do in the qualitative research community. If their goals were to illuminate, transform, and inspire, these editors and contributors have certainly hit their mark. This book is a gift to both students and teachers of emergent methods.--Valerie J. Janesick, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of South Florida
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: Pushing on the Methodological Boundaries—The Growing Need for Emergent Methods within and across the Disciplines, Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Patricia LeavyI. Historical Context of Emergent Methods and Innovation in the Practice of Research Methods Introduction to Part I, Patricia Leavy and Sharlene Nagy Hesse-BiberHistory 1. History of Methods in Social Science Research, Karen M. Staller, Ellen Block, and Pilar S. Horner
2. Gender Inclusion, Contextual Values, and Strong Objectivity: Emergent Feminist Methods for Research in the Sciences, Sue V. Rosser
3. A Post-Newtonian, Postmodern Approach to Science: New Methods in Social Action Research, Lisa Cosgrove and Maureen McHugh
4. Emergence in and from Quasi-Experimental Design and Analysis, Melvin M. Mark Document Research 5. Researching Documents: Emergent Methods, Lindsay Prior
6. Emergent Qualitative Document Analysis, David Altheide, Michael Coyle, Katie DeVriese, and Christopher SchneiderGrounded Theory 7. Grounded Theory as an Emergent Method, Kathy CharmazInterviewing 8. New Frontiers in Standardized Survey Interviewing, Frederick G. Conrad and Michael F. Schober
9. Emergent Approaches to Focus Group Research, David Morgan, Collin Fellows, and Heather Guevara
10. Emergent Issues in International Focus Group Discussions, Monique M. Hennink
11. Three Dimensions and More: Oral History Beyond the Paradoxes of Method, Michael FrischEthnography 12. Narrative Ethnography, Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein
13. Public Ethnography, Carol A. Bailey
14. Emergent Methods in Autoethnographic Research: Autoethnographic Narrative and the Multiethnographic Turn, Christine S. Davis and Carolyn Ellis
15. New Critical Collaborative Ethnography, Himika BhattacharyaArts-Based Practice 16. Visual Research Methods: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?, Gunilla Holm
17. Performance-Based Emergent Methods, Patricia LeavyII. Innovations in Research Methods Design and Analysis Introduction to Part II, Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber
18. Mixing Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches: An Introduction to Emergent Mixed Methods Research, Vicki L. Plano Clark, John W. Creswell, Denise O'Neil Green, and Ronald J. Shope
19. Emergent Techniques in the Gathering and Analysis of Mixed Methods Data, Charles Teddlie, Abbas Tashakkori, and Burke Johnson
20. Data Analysis and Interpretation: Emergent Issues in Linking Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence, Sarah Irwin
21. Longitudinal Research: An Emergent Method in the Social Sciences, Elisabetta Ruspini
22. Categorizing and Connecting Strategies in Qualitative Data Analysis, Joseph A. Maxwell and Barbara A. Miller
23. Metaphor Analysis, Zazie Todd and Simon J. Harrison
24. Hearing Voices: Listening for Multiplicity and Movement in Interview Data, Lynn Sorsoli and Deborah L. TolmanIII. The Impact of Emergent Technologies on Research Methods Introduction to Part III, Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber
25. Internet Research as Emergent Practice, Christine Hine
26. Internet-Mediated Research as an Emergent Method and Its Potential Role in Facilitating Mixed Methods Research, Claire Hewson
27. Hypermedia Methods for Qualitative Research, Bella Dicks & Bruce Mason
28. Mixed Emotions, Mixed Methods: The Role of Emergent Technologies in Studying User Experience in Context, Ingrid Mulder and Joke Kort
29. Emergent Methods in Feminist Geography, Mei-Po Kwan
30. Neural Networks an Emergent Method in Quantitative Research: An Example of Self-Organizing Maps, Natalia Sarkisian
31. User-Centered Perspectives on Qualitative Data Analysis Software: The Impact of Emergent Technologies and Future Trends, Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Christine Crofts
32. The Role of Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis: Impact on Emergent Methods in Qualitative Research, Nigel Fielding
