Previous ed.: 1996

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Questions of strategy -- Finding a focus and knowing where you stand -- Designing qualitative research -- Generating qualitative data -- Data sources, methods and approaches -- Qualitative interviewing -- Observing and participating -- Using visual methods and documents -- Sampling and selection in qualitative research -- Analysing qualitative data -- Organizing and indexing qualitative data -- Making convincing arguments with qualitative data

Highlighting the difficult questions of qualitative research, this text outlines the intellectual, ethical and political implications of different ways of resolving these questions.