Qualitative Research Methods
Collecting Evidence, Crafting Analysis, Communicating Impact
3. Edition September 2024
480 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Step-by-step advice for constructing a qualitative project from beginning to end, covering both foundational theory and real-world application
Qualitative Research Methods: Collecting Evidence, Crafting Analysis, Communicating Impact guides you through sequential stages of a qualitative research project, from project design and data collection to analysis, interpretation, and presentation. Drawing on her background in qualitative research methods and human communication, Sarah J. Tracy shares personal and backstage stories while showing you how to code data, craft meaningful claims, develop theoretical explanations, and communicate research that impacts key stakeholders.
Employing a practical, problem-based contextual approach, the third edition of Qualitative Research Methods incorporates developments in textual, media, visual, arts-based, and digital analysis. New coverage includes social media data-scraping techniques, AI and ChatGPT, fieldwork and interviewing, digital ethnography, working with neurodivergent populations, adopting digital and traditional archival approaches, and much more. This edition includes a wealth of new examples, case studies, discussion questions, full-color visuals, and hands-on "Project Building Blocks" activities you can use at any stage of your qualitative research project.
Supported by a companion website containing extensive teaching and learning tools, Qualitative Research Methods: Collecting Evidence, Crafting Analysis, Communicating Impact is an indispensable resource for undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty across multiple disciplines, as well as researchers, ethnographers, and user experience professionals looking to hone their methodological practice.
Preface: Is this book for me? xvii
About the Companion Website xxv
1 The impact and power of qualitative methods 1
2 Entering the conversation of qualitative research 27
3 Paradigmatic reflections and qualitative research genres 54
4 Research design, sampling, research proposals, ethics, and IRB 83
5 Negotiating access and exploring the scene 114
6 Field roles, fieldnotes, and field focus 141
7 Interview planning and design: Structuring, wording, and questioning 169
8 Interview practice: Embodied, mediated, and focus- group approaches 196
9 Phronetic iterative qualitative data analysis (PIQDA) 224
10 Advanced data analysis: The art and magic of interpretation 256
11 A big tent model of qualitative quality: Creating a credible, ethical, significant study 285
12 Theorizing and writing: Explaining, synthesizing, and crafting a tale 313
13 Drafting, polishing, and publishing 343
14 Qualitative methodology matters: Exiting and communicating impact 369
Appendix A Fieldnote 394
Appendix B Focus group guide 396
Appendix C Interview/focus group excerpts with different levels of transcription detail 400
References 404
Index 431
