By Martyn Hammersley

ISBN-10: 1412935148

ISBN-13: 9781412935142

ISBN-10: 1412935156

ISBN-13: 9781412935159

Is qualitative learn in situation?

In Questioning Qualitative Inquiry Martyn Hammersley increases basic questions on the present nation of qualitative social learn. He examines a few of the adjustments that experience taken position inside it during the last fifty years, suggesting that the circulation clear of common technology as a version, and in the direction of an attract literature and paintings, comprises rejection of key rules which are necessary to learn of any kind.

Hammersley argues that, in vital respects, qualitative inquiry has no longer lived as much as the claims initially made on its behalf, and that newer advancements have worsened the location. inadequate awareness has been given to the issues surrounding top rules like thick description, analytic induction, and constructionism. The argument is pursued via dialogue of the paintings of influential writers - corresponding to Clifford, Geertz, Denzin and Lincoln - and by means of special exam of concrete matters, just like the price of interview facts, the rationales for discourse and dialog research, the position of rhetoric in examine reviews, and the character of evaluate standards.

At a time whilst qualitative inquiry is coming less than renewed problem in a few quarters, the duty of addressing the methodological difficulties it faces has develop into pressing. those essays on present advancements and debates are crucial analyzing for an individual attracted to the way forward for qualitative research.

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