{"product_id":"qualitative-research-practice-concise-paperback-edition-9781412934206","title":"Qualitative Research Practice: Concise Paperback Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Clive Seale\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Research\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis comprehensive collection of almost 40 chapters - each written by a leading expert in the field - is the essential reference for anyone undertaking or studying qualitative research. It covers a diversity of methods and a variety of perspectives and is a very practical and informative guide for newcomers and experienced researchers alike′ - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Scott, University of Essex \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The best ways in which to understand the issues and processes informing qualitative research is to learn from the accounts of its leading practitioners. Here they come together in what is a distinctive and wide-ranging collection that will appeal to postgraduates and social researchers in general′ - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTim May, University of Salford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e This excellent guide engages in a dialogue with a wide range of expert qualitative researchers, each of whom considers their own practice in an illuminating and challenging way. Overall, the book constitutes an authoritative survey of current methods of qualitative research data collection and analysis′ - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNigel Gilbert, University of Surrey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis concise paperback edition of the best selling handbook, \u003cb\u003eQualitative Research Practice\u003c\/b\u003e, is particularly aimed at the student reader. The chapters are written by leading, internationally distinguished qualitative researchers who recount and reflect on their own research experiences as well as others, past and present, from whom they have learned. It demonstrates the benefits of using particular methods from the viewpoint of real-life experience. This is also a good philosophy for students to adopt in planing research work: to begin from a practical conception of the research process and to treat a book like this as an opportunity to learn a valuable craft.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the outside, good research seems to be produced through practitioners learning and following standard theoretical, empirical and procedural formats. But from the inside we learn that qualitative research (like other forms of scientific endeavour) is also a biographical engagement, rendering its scholarly and practical contributions in its own terms. Standards take on practical meaning as the distinct activities of qualitative research resonate throughout the enterprise, complicating its accountability to itself and to others. In an authoritative yet accessible manner, \u003cb\u003eQualitative Research Practice\u003c\/b\u003e reveals the special features of this engagement, teaching us that qualitative research is as much a craft and practice as it is a way of knowing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePresenting a comprehensive examination of contemporary and traditional varieties of qualitative research practice, \u003cb\u003eQualitative Research Practice\u003c\/b\u003e will be an invaluable resource for advanced students and researchers in any discipline. It is an essential and definitive guide to the major forms of qualitative methods in use today, written by leaders in the relevant fields of research practice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sage Publications Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45457202282647,"sku":"9781412934206","price":16139.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781412934206.webp?v=1769292970","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/qualitative-research-practice-concise-paperback-edition-9781412934206","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}