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| Finding a Point of Entry | |
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| Entering into Qualitative Conversations | |
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| Qualitative Conversations and Your Own Research | |
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| Choosing to Think Qualitatively | |
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| A Qualitative Predisposition | |
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| Proceeding from a Qualitative Stance | |
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| Guiding Assumptions of Qualitative Inquiry | |
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| Keeping Matters in Perspective | |
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| Using Qualities to Inform Conceptualization | |
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| Summary of Key Points | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Positioning Yourself for Inquiry | |
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| A Strategy to Hold It All Together | |
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| The Dynamic Within the Design | |
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| Thinking Ahead to Your Research Proposal | |
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| Engaging Problem and Purpose | |
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| Shaping a Preliminary Sense of Problem | |
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| Entry-Level Theorizing | |
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| Situating Your Problem | |
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| Clarifying Purposes | |
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| Research Purposes and Practical Purposes | |
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| Distinguishing Focus and Locus | |
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| Purposes and Going Qualitative | |
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| Strategies to Help Clarify Your Ideas and Aims | |
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| Mining Your Memos | |
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| Pilot Studies | |
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| Summary of Key Points | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Clarifying Your Perspective | |
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| Constructing an Intellectual Orientation | |
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| Responding to Fundamental Questions | |
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| Thinking About How You View the Social World | |
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| Connecting with a Lens for Your Inquiry: Some Key Examples | |
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| Making Connections | |
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| The Moral Dimensions of Being a Researcher | |
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| Where and How Do You Make Your Perspective Known? | |
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| Summary of Key Points | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Constructing a Conceptual Argument | |
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| Seeking Theoretical Legitimacy | |
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| Thinking Theoretically | |
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| Formulating an Argument | |
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| Directing the Flow of Ideas | |
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| Identifying Currents of Thought | |
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| Integrating Currents of Thought | |
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| Thinking Ahead to Your Research Proposal | |
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| Summary of Key Points | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Forming Research Questions | |
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| Moving Toward Your Research Question | |
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| Tacking Between Breadth and Precision | |
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| Attending to What Matters | |
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| Justifying Your Question | |
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| Assessing Goodness of Fit | |
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| Orienting and Rationalizing Your Approach | |
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| Going Somewhere with Your Question | |
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| Defining the Evolution of Your Inquiry | |
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| Summary of Key Points | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Choosing a Research Approach | |
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| Defining Research Approaches | |
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| Tradition, Method, and Analytic Framework | |
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| Distinguishing Among Options | |
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| Ethnography | |
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| Phenomenology | |
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| Grounded Theory | |
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| Narrative Inquiry | |
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| Case Study | |
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| A Cautionary Summary | |
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| Assessing Goodness of Fit | |
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| Linking Question and Approach | |
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| Focusing Your Attention | |
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| Claiming the Whole or Borrowing Pieces | |
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| Summary of Key Points | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Anticipating Your Inquiry in Action | |
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| Getting into Place | |
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| Making Good Use of Opportunities | |
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| Strategic Considerations for Fieldwork | |
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| Intent | |
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| Focus | |
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| Involvement | |
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| Degree of Involvement | |
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| Portrayal of Involvement | |
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| Familiarity | |
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| Positioning | |
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| Role Awareness | |
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| Summary of Key Points | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Establishing Your Inquiry's Integrity | |
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| Practical Considerations | |
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| Consequences of Presence | |
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| Selective Experience | |
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| Engaged Subjectivity | |
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| Ethical Considerations | |
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| Posturing and Presentation of Self | |
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| Disclosure and Exchange | |
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| Making Public the Private | |
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| Disengaging and Staying in Touch | |
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| Summary of Key Points | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Writing Your Proposal | |
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| From Conceptualizing to Proposing | |
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| Arguing for Your Study | |
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| Structuring Your Proposal | |
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| Title | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Conceptual Context and Theoretical Orientation | |
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| Research Questions | |
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| Research Procedures | |
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| Significance and Implications | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Additional Considerations | |
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| Concluding Thoughts and Advice | |
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| Coming Full Circle | |
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| Some Closing Advice About Pursuing a Qualitative Study | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |