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| Preface: Scouting the Terrain | |
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| How This Book Was Born | |
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| Why Is the Practical Experience of Doing Research So Important? | |
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| Overview of the Book | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Beginning | |
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| Thoughts for the Uninitiated on Starting a Qualitative Project | |
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| What Is Qualitative Research? What Is Ethnography? | |
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| Why Do a Qualitative Study? | |
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| Qualitative Research: What Is It Good For? | |
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| What Is a Good Question for a Qualitative Study? | |
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| What Makes for a Good Site When Starting a Qualitative Project? | |
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| What Do I Need to Bring to My Site? | |
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| What Do You Do If…? (It Depends) | |
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| Context, Question, Collecting Data | |
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| Rules for the Road: Never Spit on Your Shoes | |
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| Gaining Access to a Site: Getting in and Gaining Institutional Review Board (IRB) Approval | |
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| Beginning | |
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| Notes | |
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| Introduction to Chapter Two | |
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| From the First Site to the Third Place: Finding Meaning and a Research Site That Works | |
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| Beginning the Journey | |
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| A Pause | |
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| Was This a Worthy Plan B? | |
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| Searching for Meaning | |
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| Emerging Meaning | |
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| Interviewing to Investigate the "Why" | |
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| Making Meaning Through Data Analysis | |
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| Focusing on Analysis | |
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| Emerging Patterns | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Interview Protocol | |
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| Fieldwork | |
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| Ethnographic Eyes: Developing a Qualitative Project | |
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| How Do I Begin Collecting Data? | |
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| Field Notes: What Are They and What Is So Hard? | |
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| Interviews: When, Why, and How | |
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| Interview Rules of the Road: Nuts and Bolts | |
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| Role Management | |
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| A New Way of Seeing: Developing Ethnographic Eyes | |
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| Notes | |
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| Introduction to Chapter Four | |
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| It Matters Where You Sit: Reflecting on the Role of Positionality in Qualitative Research | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| Managing Positionality in Fieldwork: The "Sit-Where-the-Fit-Is" Cycle | |
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| The Long Shadow Cast by Positionality: Role Management and Social Identity | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Analysis and Writing | |
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| Making Sense of What You Are Seeing: Analysis and Writing | |
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| The Analytic Toolkit | |
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| Getting Started with the Actual Writing | |
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| From Colored Pencils to Analytic Software | |
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| Writing Is Analysis | |
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| Notes | |
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| Introduction to Chapter Six | |
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| Three Times Blind: The Wandering, Wondering Path to Asking the Right Question | |
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| What's in a (Research) Question? | |
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| The Starting Point | |
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| Thrice Blinded: A Metaphor | |
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| Selecting a Site | |
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| The First Blindness | |
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| The Second Blindness | |
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| The Third Blindness | |
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| Hopes and Fears of Seeing | |
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| Notes | |
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| Appendix: Site Selection Guidelines and Site Prospectus Guidelines | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Authors | |