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David Silverman

Pub Date: 11/2009
Pages: 480

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David Silverman
Chapter 24

Effective Qualitative Research

This is an edited transcript of a recent discussion about the nature of qualitative research in which a number of scholars respond to questions about their personal history with qualitative methods. As you will see, the participants take a rather different position to my own. I have included this article for that very reason.

Qualitative Inquiry, 14 (2), 254-84 (2008)
DOI 10.1177/1077800407311959
http://qix.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/14/2/254

'Talking and thinking about qualitative research'
Carolyn Ellis, University of South Florida, USA
Arthur Bochner, University of South Florida, USA
Norman Denzin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Yvonna Lincoln, Texas A&M University, USA
Janice Morse, University of Utah, USA
Ronald Pelias, Southern Illinois University, USA
Laurel Richardson, The Ohio State University, USA

EXERCISE

  1. List the points of difference and agreement in this article with what I say in Chapter 24.
  2. Which positions do you agree with? Why?