| | ix | |
| Introduction: A Sense of Things to Come | | xi | |
| Acknowledgments | | xv | |
| Meeting Qualitative Inquiry |
| | 1 | (16) |
| | 1 | (2) |
| | 3 | (1) |
| | 4 | (2) |
| | 6 | (2) |
| The Variability of Qualitative Inquiry |
| | 8 | (7) |
| | 15 | (1) |
| | 16 | (1) |
| | 16 | (1) |
| Prestudy Tasks: Doing What Is Good for You |
| | 17 | (26) |
| | 18 | (1) |
| | 19 | (3) |
| | 22 | (2) |
| Research Statement and Questions |
| | 24 | (1) |
| | 25 | (3) |
| Selection of Study Participants |
| | 28 | (3) |
| Selection of Research Techniques |
| | 31 | (1) |
| | 32 | (1) |
| | 33 | (2) |
| | 35 | (3) |
| | 38 | (1) |
| | 39 | (2) |
| | 41 | (1) |
| | 42 | (1) |
| Being There: Developing Understanding Through Participant Observation |
| | 43 | (24) |
| The Participant-Observation Continuum |
| | 44 | (1) |
| Participant-Observation Goals |
| | 45 | (1) |
| The Participant-Observation Process |
| | 46 | (10) |
| Other Fieldwork Allies: Collaborators, Photographs, and Documents |
| | 56 | (4) |
| The Participant Observer's Role |
| | 60 | (6) |
| | 66 | (1) |
| Making Words Fly: Developing Understanding Through Interviewing |
| | 67 | (28) |
| Interviewing: An Interaction |
| | 67 | (2) |
| | 69 | (6) |
| | 75 | (5) |
| The Nature of Interviewing |
| | 80 | (2) |
| | 82 | (8) |
| | 90 | (2) |
| Concluding Considerations |
| | 92 | (1) |
| | 93 | (2) |
| The Personal Dimension: Rapport and Subjectivity |
| | 95 | (18) |
| | 95 | (1) |
| Factors Bearing on Rapport |
| | 96 | (2) |
| Developing and Maintaining Rapport Safety Valves |
| | 98 | (4) |
| | 102 | (3) |
| | 105 | (4) |
| Monitoring and Using Subjectivity |
| | 109 | (1) |
| | 110 | (1) |
| | 111 | (1) |
| | 111 | (1) |
| | 112 | (1) |
| But Is It Ethical? Learning to Do Right |
| | 113 | (17) |
| | 114 | (2) |
| | 116 | (1) |
| Researcher Roles and Ethical Dilemmas |
| | 117 | (5) |
| The Researcher-Other Relationship |
| | 122 | (6) |
| | 128 | (1) |
| | 129 | (1) |
| Finding Your Story: Data Analysis |
| | 130 | (25) |
| | 130 | (5) |
| Later Data Analysis: Entering the Code Mines |
| | 135 | (5) |
| | 140 | (5) |
| | 145 | (4) |
| | 149 | (2) |
| Trustworthiness of Your Interpretations |
| | 151 | (2) |
| | 153 | (1) |
| | 154 | (1) |
| Writing Your Story: What Your Data Say |
| | 155 | (20) |
| | 155 | (3) |
| | 158 | (6) |
| The Text: Questions of Style |
| | 164 | (8) |
| Responsibilities of the Writer |
| | 172 | (2) |
| | 174 | (1) |
| Improvising a Song of the World: Language and Representation |
| | 175 | (18) |
| Reflexivity The Researcher and the Researched |
| | 176 | (1) |
| The Researcher's Language |
| | 177 | (1) |
| The Researcher's Representations |
| | 178 | (1) |
| The Art of Re-presentation |
| | 179 | (2) |
| | 181 | (2) |
| | 183 | (4) |
| | 187 | (2) |
| | 189 | (1) |
| | 190 | (1) |
| | 191 | (1) |
| | 192 | (1) |
| | 193 | (8) |
| Becoming Qualitative Researchers: The Personal Context |
| | 193 | (2) |
| Applications of Qualitative Research: The Outcomes of Your Search |
| | 195 | (4) |
| | 199 | (1) |
| | 199 | (2) |
| Appendix: Web Resources | | 201 | (2) |
| References | | 203 | (14) |
| Name Index | | 217 | (3) |
| Subject Index | | 220 | |
