Defending qualitative research : design, analysis and textualization

Defending qualitative research : design, analysis and textualization / Mario Cardano.

"Focusing on the phases of qualitative research which precede and follow fieldwork - design, analysis, and textualization - this book offers new theoretical tools to tackle one of the most common criticisms advanced against qualitative research: its presumed lack of rigour. Rejecting the notion...

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Main Author: Cardano, Mario (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Series:Routledge advances in research methods.
Subjects:
Research > Methodology.
Qualitative research.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Qualitative research
Research > Methodology
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary:"Focusing on the phases of qualitative research which precede and follow fieldwork - design, analysis, and textualization - this book offers new theoretical tools to tackle one of the most common criticisms advanced against qualitative research: its presumed lack of rigour. Rejecting the notion of 'rigour' as formulated in quantitative research and based on the theory of probability, it proposes a theoretical frame that allows combining the goals of rigour and that of creativity through the reference to theory of argumentation. As such, it will appeal to scholars and students across the social sciences with interests in qualitative research methods"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 166 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780429464232
0429464231
9780429875007
0429875002
0429875010
9780429875021
0429875029
9780429875014
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 13, 2020).
Biographical or Historical Data:Mario Cardano is Full Professor of the Qualitative Methods for Social Research and the Sociology of Health at the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin, Italy.

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