Research, Social Sciences 

Once again, editors Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S Lincoln have put together a volume that represents the state of the art for the theory and practice of qualitative inquiry. Built on the foundation of the landmark first edition, published in 1994, the second edition is both the bridge and the roadmap to the territory that lies ahead for researchers across the disciplines. The Second Edition is a significant revision; in fact, it is virtually a new work. It features six new chapter topics, including, among others, auto-ethnography, critical race theory, applied ethnography, queer theory, and testimonies. Another fifteen chapters are written by new contributors. And every chapter in the book has been thoroughly revised and updated. - from Amazon 

Introduction: The discipline and practice of qualitative research / Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln -- Qualitative methods: their history in sociology and anthropology / Arthur J. Vidich and Stanford M. Lyman -- Reconstructing the relationships between universities and society through action research / Davydd J. Greenwood and Morten Levin -- For whom? Qualitative research, representations, and social responsibilities / Michelle Fine [and others] -- Ethics and politics in qualitative research / Clifford G. Christians -- Paradigmatic controversies, contradictions, and emerging confluences / Yvonna S. Lincoln and Egon G. Guba -- Three epistemological stances for qualitative inquiry: interpretivism, hermeneutics, and social constructionism / Thomas A. Schwandt -- Feminisms and qualitative research at and into the millennium / Virginia L. Olesen -- Racialized discourses and ethnic epistemologies / Gloria Ladson-Billings -- Rethinking critical theory and qualitative research / Joe L. Kincheloe and Peter McLaren -- Cultural studies / John Frow and Meaghan Morris -- Sexualities, queer theory, and qualitative research / Joshua Gamson -- The choreography of qualitative research design: minuets, improvisations, and crystallization / Valerie J. Janesick -- An untold story? Doing funded qualitative research / Julianne Cheek -- Performance ethnography: a brief history and some advice / Michal M. McCall -- Case studies / Robert E. Stake -- Ethnography and ethnographic representation / Barbara Tedlock -- Analyzing interpretive practice / Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein -- Grounded theory: objectivist and constructivist methods / Kathy Charmaz -- Undaunted courage: life history and the postmodern challenge / William G. Tierney -- Testimonio, subalternity, and narrative authority / John Beverley -- Participatory action research / Stephen Kemmis and Robin McTaggart -- Clinical research / William L. Miller and Benjamin F. Crabtree -- The interview: from structured questions to negotiated text / Andrea Fontana and James H. Frey -- Rethinking observation: from method to context / Michael V. Angrosino and Kimberly A. Mays de Pérez -- The interpretation of documents and material culture / Ian Hodder -- Reimagining visual methods: Galileo to Neuromancer / Douglas Harper -- Autoethnography, personal narrative, reflexivity: researcher as subject / Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P. Bochner -- Data management and analysis methods / Gery W. Ryan and H. Russell Bernard -- Software and qualitative research / Eben A. Weitzman -- Analyzing talk and text / David Silverman -- Focus groups in feminist research / Esther Madriz -- Applied ethnography / Erve Chambers -- The problem of criteria in the age of relativism / John K. Smith and Deborah K. Deemer -- The practices and politics of interpretation / Norman K. Denzin -- Writing: a method of inquiry / Laurel Richardson -- Anthropological poetics / Ivan Brady -- Understanding social programs through evaluation / Jennifer C. Greene -- Influencing the policy process with qualitative research / Ray C. Rist -- Qualitative inquiry: tensions and transformations / Mary M. Gergen and Kenneth J. Gergen -- The seventh moment: out of the past / Yvonna S. Lincoln and Norman K. Denzin. 

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.