Cargando…
Interpretive Approaches to Research Design : Concepts and Processes.
Research design is fundamental to all scientific endeavors, at all levels and in all institutional settings. In many social science disciplines, however, scholars working in an interpretive-qualitative tradition get little guidance on this aspect of research from the positivist-centered training the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Otros Autores: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Hoboken : Francis,
Taylor & amp ;
2011.
|
| Colección: | Routledge series on interpretive methods.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- INTERPRETIVE RESEARCH DESIGN Concepts and Processes; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Sketch of the Book; 1 Wherefore Research Designs?; Research Design: Why Is It Necessary?; An Outline of a Research Proposal, Including the Research Design; 2 Ways of Knowing: Research Questions and Logics of Inquiry; Where Do Research Questions Come From? The Role of Prior Knowledge; Where Do Research Questions Come From? Abductive Ways of Knowing; Where Do Research Questions Come From? The Role of Theory and the "Literature Review."
- Do Concepts "Emerge from the Field"? More on Theory and TheorizingWhere Do Research Questions Come From? Ontological and Epistemological Presuppositions in Interpretive Research; A Short Bibliography of Key Sources in Interpretive Social Science; 3 Starting from Meaning: Contextuality and Its Implications; Contrasting Orientations toward Knowledge; Contextuality and the Character of Concepts and Causality; Concepts: Bottom-up In Situ Development; But What of Hypothesizing? Constitutive Causality; The Centrality of Context; 4 The Rhythms of Interpretive Research I: Getting Going.
- Access: Choices of Settings, Actors, Events, Archives, and MaterialsPower and Research Relationships; Researcher Roles: Six Degrees of Participation; Access, Researcher Roles, and Positionality; Access and Archives; Access versus Case Selection; Design Flexibility: Control and Requisite Researcher Skills; Control and Positivist Research Design; The Logics of Control and Interpretive Research; Interpretive Researcher Competence and Skill; 5 The Rhythms of Interpretive Research II: Understanding and Generating Evidence; The Character of Evidence: (Co- )Generated Data and "Truth."
- Forms of Evidence: Word-Data and BeyondMapping for Exposure and Intertextuality; Fieldnote Practices; 6 Designing for Trustworthiness: Knowledge Claims and Evaluations of Interpretive Research; Understanding the Limitations of Positivist Standards for Interpretive Research: Validity, Reliability, and Replicability; The Problems of "Bias" and "Researcher Presence": "Objectivity" and Contrasting Methodological Responses; Researcher Sense-Making in an Abductive Logic of Inquiry: Reflexivity and Other Checks for Designing Trustworthy Research; Checking Researcher Sense-Making through Reflexivity.
- Checking Researcher Sense-Making during Data Generation and AnalysisChecking Researcher Sense-Making through "Member- Checking"; Doubt, Trustworthiness, and Explanatory Coherence; "Researcher Contamination" and "Bias" Revisited; Summing Up; 7 Design in Context: From the Human Side of Research to Writing Research Manuscripts; The Body in the Field: Emotions, Sexuality, Wheelchairedness, and Other Human Realities; Interpretive Research and Human Subjects Protections Review; Data Archiving and Replicability; Writing Research Designs and Manuscripts; 8 Speaking across Epistemic Communities.