1st Edition
Defending Qualitative Research Design, Analysis, and Textualization
By Mario Cardano
Copyright 2019
176 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
176 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
176 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Focussing 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... Read more
Introduction
1. A Premise on Two Crucial Issues: Invisibility and Method
2. Qualitative Research: A Portrait
3. Theory of Argumentation Survival Kit
4. The Qualitative Research Design
5. On Qualitative Data Analysis
6. The Textualization
Biography
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.
‘… a lively, six-chapter volume that discusses, as the subtitle indicates, the characteristics of research design, data analysis and writing … The book represents a good reading resource for students.’ – Chiara Bassetti, Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa
