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