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| Introduction | |
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| Introduction to the Book | |
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| Who is This Book For? | |
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| The Qualitative Research Cycle | |
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| Structure of the Book | |
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| Features of this Book | |
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| The Nature of Qualitative Research | |
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| What is Qualitative Research? | |
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| When to Conduct Qualitative Research | |
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| The Underlying Interpretive Paradigm | |
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| Qualitative and Quantitative Research | |
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| Verstehen and Understanding | |
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| The Emic and Etic Perspective | |
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| Subjectivity and The Need for Reflexivity | |
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| Our Approach to Qualitative Research | |
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| Evaluating quality | |
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| The Design Cycle | |
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| The Design Cycle | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Formulating Qualitative Research Questions | |
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| Incorporating Literature and Theory | |
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| Developing a Conceptual Framework | |
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| Selecting a Fieldwork Approach | |
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| Evaluating Quality | |
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| Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is Ethics? | |
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| Ethics in Qualitative Research | |
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| Ethical Issues in the Design Cycle | |
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| Ethical Issues in the Ethnographic Cycle | |
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| Ethical Issues in the Analytic Cycle | |
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| Evaluating quality | |
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| The Ethnographic Cycle | |
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| Participant Recruitment | |
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| What is Participant Recruitment? | |
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| Defining and Refining the Study Population | |
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| How Many to Recruit: The Principle of Saturation | |
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| Recruitment Goals | |
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| Strategies for Participant Recruitment | |
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| Evaluating quality | |
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| In-Depth Interviews | |
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| What is an In-Depth Interview? | |
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| When to Conduct an In-Depth Interview | |
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| Purpose of an In-Depth Interview | |
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| The Cyclical Nature of Data Collection | |
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| Developing an Interview Guide | |
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| Preparing for Data Collection | |
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| Reflecting on Subjectivity and Positionality | |
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| Conducting the Interview | |
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| Strengths and Limitations | |
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| Evaluating Quality | |
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| Focus Group Discussions | |
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| What is a Focus Group Discussion? | |
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| When to Conduct Focus Group Discussions | |
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| The Cyclical Nature of Data Collection | |
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| Developing the Discussion Guide | |
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| Preparing for Data Collection | |
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| Conducting the Focus Group Discussion | |
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| Post-Discussion Information | |
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| Strengths and Limitations | |
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| Evaluating quality | |
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| Observation | |
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| What is Observation? | |
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| When to Conduct Observation | |
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| What to Observe | |
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| Types of Observation | |
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| Preparing and Conduct of Observation | |
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| Writing an Observation | |
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| Strengths and Limitations | |
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| Evaluating Quality | |
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| The Analytic Cycle | |
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| Data Preparation and Developing Codes | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Nature of Qualitative Data Analysis | |
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| Our Approach to Analysis | |
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| Foundations of Grounded Theory | |
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| Data Preparation | |
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| Developing Codes | |
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| Making a Codebook | |
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| Coding Data | |
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| Evaluating Quality | |
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| Textual Data Analysis | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Formulating a Project-Specific Plan of Analysis | |
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| Searching Data | |
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| The Cyclical Process of Analysis | |
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| Thick Description | |
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| Comparison | |
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| Categorizing and Conceptualizing | |
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| Theory Development | |
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| Evaluating Quality | |
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| Writing Qualitative Research | |
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| Writing in Qualitative Research | |
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| Who is the Audience? | |
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| Structure of Writing | |
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| Beginning to Write | |
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| Writing a Methodology | |
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| Presenting Qualitative Results | |
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| Evaluating Quality | |