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.
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Crafting qualitative research : working in the postpositivist traditions by Pushkala Prasad. ISBN 0765607905. Published by M.E. Sharpe in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
