Crafting qualitative research :
Prasad, Pushkala.
Crafting qualitative research : working in the postpositivist traditions / Pushkala Prasad. - New York, N.Y. : Routledge, c2015. - viii, 340 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : qualitative research as craft : post positivist traditions and research styles -- Symbolic interactionism : searching for self and meaning -- Hermeneutics : the interpretations of texts -- Dramaturgy and dramatism : social life as theater and stage -- Ethnomethodology : the accomplishment of ordinary lives -- Ethnography : cultural understandings of natives -- Semiotics : the grammar of social reality -- Historical materialism : class, conflict, and domination -- Critical theory : hegemony, knowledge production and communicative action -- Feminism : gender as the core social principle -- Structuration and praxeology : transcending dualisms within frameworks of power -- Postmodernism : playing with images and the 'truth' -- Poststructuralism : discourse, discipline, and deconstruction -- Postcolonialism : unpacking and resisting imperialism -- Conclusion : tradition, improvisation, and quality control.
0765607904 (pbk : alk. paper) 0765607898 (hbk)
2004023624
Qualitative research.
Qualitative research--Methodology.
H62 / .P651 2015
001.4/2
Crafting qualitative research : working in the postpositivist traditions / Pushkala Prasad. - New York, N.Y. : Routledge, c2015. - viii, 340 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : qualitative research as craft : post positivist traditions and research styles -- Symbolic interactionism : searching for self and meaning -- Hermeneutics : the interpretations of texts -- Dramaturgy and dramatism : social life as theater and stage -- Ethnomethodology : the accomplishment of ordinary lives -- Ethnography : cultural understandings of natives -- Semiotics : the grammar of social reality -- Historical materialism : class, conflict, and domination -- Critical theory : hegemony, knowledge production and communicative action -- Feminism : gender as the core social principle -- Structuration and praxeology : transcending dualisms within frameworks of power -- Postmodernism : playing with images and the 'truth' -- Poststructuralism : discourse, discipline, and deconstruction -- Postcolonialism : unpacking and resisting imperialism -- Conclusion : tradition, improvisation, and quality control.
0765607904 (pbk : alk. paper) 0765607898 (hbk)
2004023624
Qualitative research.
Qualitative research--Methodology.
H62 / .P651 2015
001.4/2