Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches

Editorial Reviews
Review
"Creswell does an excellent job categorizing the various qualitative methods into five approaches: narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study...The author has expanded on and updated the information he presented in the first edition of the book (Creswell, 1998), including discussion of the various schools of thought that have developed among qualitative researchers since the mid 1990's...Qualitative Inquiry & Research Design: Choosing among five approaches is a highly informative book; researchers will likely return again and against to the book as they expand their comfort zone within qualitative research."

-Peggy M. Delmas, University of Alabama (Peggy M. Delmas National ACademic ADvising Association )

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"Creswell does an excellent job categorizing the various qualitative methods into five approaches: narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study...The author has expanded on and updated the information he presented in the first edition of the book (Creswell, 1998), including discussion of the various schools of thought that have developed among qualitative researchers since the mid 1990's...Qualitative Inquiry & Research Design: Choosing among five approaches is a highly informative book; researchers will likely return again and against to the book as they expand their comfort zone within qualitative research."

-Peggy M. Delmas, University of Alabama

“Creswell has produced an even more outstanding and valuable text for qualitative research than the First Edition.”

-Edith King, University of Denver

Like the bestselling First Edition, this new version explores the philosophical underpinnings, history, and key elements of each of five qualitative inquiry approaches: narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study. Using an accessible and engaging writing style, author John W. Creswell compares theoretical frameworks, ways to employ standards of quality, and strategies for writing introductions to studies, collecting data, analyzing data, writing a narrative, and verifying results.


New to the Second Edition:

* Brings the philosophical and theoretical orientations to the beginning of the book: This grounds students in the foundational thinking behind these methods much earlier.
* Gives broader coverage of narrative research: One of the original five approaches is expanded from "Biography" to "Narrative," thus exploring a wider range of narrative opportunities, biography still being one of them.
* Offers a much deeper discussion of interpretive approaches: There is much more emphasis on interpretive and postmodern perspectives such as feminism and critical theory.
* Provides more specific steps for doing research within each approach: The actual procedure for each approach is discussed and includes the sub-types of qualitative research within each of the five approaches.
* Illustrates phenomenology and ethnography: Two new, recent sample journal articles: one covering a phenomenological study; the other on an ethnographic study are included.
* Includes additional examples: More examples from the human services add to the robust examples in education, sociology, and psychology already present in the text.

Innovative Instructor's Resource CD:
An accompanying Instructor’s Resource CD contains many useful resources including PowerPoint slides, syllabi, checklists, exercises, annotated references to SAGE journal articles, and relevant Web links.

Intended Audience:
This is an excellent text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in introductory qualitative research methods across the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences.

Case Study Research: Design and Methods, Third Edition, Applied Social Research Methods Series, Vol 5

Description

This new edition of the best-selling Case Study Research has been carefully revised, updated, and expanded while retaining virtually all of the features and coverage of the Second Edition. Robert Yin's comprehensive presentation covers all aspects of the case study method--from problem definition, design, and data collection, to data analysis and composition and reporting. Yin also traces the uses and importance of case studies to a wide range of disciplines, from sociology, psychology and history to management, planning, social work, and education.

New to the Third Edition:

* Additional examples of case study research
* Discussions of developments in related methods, including randomized field trials and computer-assisted coding techniques
* Added coverage of the strengths of multiple-case studies, case study screening, and the case study as a part of larger multi-method studies
* Five major analytic techniques, including the use of logic models to guide analysis

This edition also includes references to examples of actual case studies in the companion volume Applications of Case Study Research, Second Edition (Sage, 2003).


About the Author

Robert K. Yin, Ph.D., serves as Chairman of the Board and CEO of COSMOS Corporation, an applied research and social science firm that has been in operation since 1980. Over the years, COSMOS has successfully completed hundreds of projects for government agencies, private foundations, and other entrepreneurial and non-profit organizations. At COSMOS, Dr. Yin actively leads various research projects, including those in which the case study method is used. He has authored numerous books and peer-reviewed articles, including Case Study Research and Applications of Case Study Research. In 1998 he founded the “Robert K. Yin Fund” at M.I.T., which supports seminars on brain sciences, as well as other activities related to the advancement of predoctoral students in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

Research Desqign: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches (2nd Edition)

Description

"Creswell's Research Design is an accessible and useful book that stimulates students through walk through experiences, use of exercises, and production of actual writing samples. It is a book that models the types of issues that best suit different approaches and allows students to understand when to use mixed methods. Furthermore, its focus on theory and paradigms is done in a way that helps students decode their meaning."

--MARTHA MONTERO-SIEBURTH, University of Massachusetts, Boston

"One of the most formidable challenges of research design is stating your purpose. Creswell's approach takes the guesswork out of the process."

--STEVE GUERRIERO, Organization & Management, Antioch New England Graduate School

The Second Edition of the bestselling Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches offers a unique comparison of three key approaches to inquiry. This comparison begins with preliminary consideration of knowledge claims for all three approaches, a review of the literature, and reflections about the importance of writing and ethics in scholarly inquiry. The book also addresses the key elements of the process of research: writing an introduction; stating a purpose for the study; identifying research questions and hypotheses; using theory; defining, delimiting and stating the significance of the study; and advancing methods and procedures for data collection and analysis.

Key Features:

* Provides a clear presentation of how to implement a mixed methods design in your proposal or plan as well as show how to implement qualitative and quantitative approaches
* Presents the ethical issues that may arise in quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods studies
* Offers extensive writing tips to help get your research plan started in the right direction
* Contains the latest developments in qualitative inquiry-including advocacy, participatory, and emancipatory approaches

This book is ideal for readers who seek assistance in designing a full research study or planning a proposal for a scholarly journal article, dissertation or thesis. The book is an invaluable reference on the basics of research design as well as an effective text for graduate courses in Research Methods, Research Design, and related topics. The book serves a broad audience of social and human scientists in fields of marketing, management, criminal justice, psychology, sociology, K-12 education, higher and post-secondary education, nursing, health sciences, urban studies, and family research.

Review
"It is both usefully expanded and very reader friendly. The book has a distinctive helpful tone and an almost "how to do it" style. If one liked the first edition, then he or she will probably adore this one." (Organizational Research Methods )

"The success of mixed methods is particularly noticeable in medical and health-related research: in order to secure funding, it is advisable to incorporate a quantitative element into any such research project, and from the point of view of working with human subjects, most qualitative researchers would argue that a qualitative element is required." -Alison Scott-Baumann, University of Gloucestershire (Alison Scott-Baumann )

AMERICAN DREAMS AS REFLECTED IN GAVIN O’CONNOR'S FILM MIRACLE

By
Midian Noor
99126143

Abstract

The spirit of the American Dreams is clearly the basic foundation that shapes the American people thinking pattern. The Miracle film that is based on the true story of this great nation shows how the American people faith to their American Dreams enable them to survive in the hard time, to conquer the challenges and become the champion at the end. This research conducts the analysis on the film of Miracle, one among many other movies that has the application of the American Dreams spirit to pursue the happiness in life as the main theme. The purposes of the research are to describe the social condition of America based on the Miracle film time setting and to find out how the spirit of the American Dreams influences the success of American people, especially in ice hockey as shown in the film of Miracle

American studies as a discipline has its own approach, namely an interdisciplinary approach. This approach involves social science such as literature, history, politics, economic structure and so fort. The research adopted the qualitative method. The data collected is in the form of words or pictures rather than numbers. The written results of the research contain quotations from the data to illustrate and substantiate the presentation the primary data is obtained from the books of American history and other supporting books which have correlation with American culture especially around the American Dreams subject. The secondary data is obtained from internet and the other articles, which have correlation with the topic.

The result of the research shows the facts that, (1) The social conditions in America, as it is shown in the film, were in the worst point in the nation entire history. The people were in the crisis of confident as the impact of the internal government affairs and the involvement of their country in several international conflicts. Economic condition at that era was still in recovering process and the impact of that condition influences the psychological state of the American people. (2) USA Ice Hockey team success to make their 'American Dreams' become reality with: optimism, hard work, hard struggle, and nationalism. (3) The faith to American Dreams Influences the success of the American people as reflected in Miracle film. It can be noticed that USA team victories over the USSR squad in Ice Hockey Olympic Game in 1980 became the USA first leap to successfully become the sole super power country after that era.

Writing Up Qualitative Research (Qualitative Research Methods)

Review

"Written in an easy-to-read, conversational tone, Writing up Qualitative Research is useful and interesting and will be an important aid to graduate students working in their dissertations. It will also enable recent doctorates who accept university prositions to advance in their profession through writing and publishing."

Review

"Harry Wolcott’s book is one of those little must-have, must-read gems. The voice of experience is unmistakable. It’s great fun to read, and chock full of helpful, how-to-do-it advice."
(H. Russell Bernard )

"Written in an easy-to-read, conversational tone, Writing up Qualitative Research is useful and interesting and will be an important aid to graduate students working in their dissertations. It will also enable recent doctorates who accept university prositions to advance in their profession through writing and publishing."

Qualitative Research for Education: An Introduction to Theories and Methods, Fifth Edition

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From the Back Cover

This concise, applied, and very clearly written introduction to qualitative research methods can be used effectively in a semester, or year-long course.

This introductory-level text provides the reader with a background for understanding the uses of qualitative research in education (and other professions) examining its theoretical and historical underpinnings, and providing the “how-to's” of doing qualitative research. This new edition places qualitative research within current debates about research methods and alternative ways of knowing. While the authors approach the subject from a sociological perspective, they also take care to reflect the many changes in conceptualization of qualitative research brought by post-structural and feminist thought.



New to This Edition:



· Rewritten Chapter 5, “Data Analysis,” places more emphasis on the interpretive aspect of research and research writing.



· Expanded coverage of action or practitioner research (Chapter 7) highlights a topic that is of immediate use.



· Added emphasis on technology and qualitative analysis software in qualitative research helps students to use and incorporate technology efficiently. Links to useful research websites have also been integrated throughout.



· Expanded coverage of such topics as formal research designs, work with different cultures, critical race theory, and the debate over quantitative vs. qualitative research.



· New end-of-chapter summaries, questions, and field assignments have been added to make this text easy to use with students.

International Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Issues

Description
No one social science can adequately provide explanations and solutions for problems that transcend national boundaries, such as international conflict, political and economic development, ethnic conflict, and terrorism. This core text is the first to provide a much-needed interdisciplinary approach to international studies.The authors include a geographer, a historian, a political scientist, and an anthropologist. Emphasizing their connectedness, each details the methodologies and subject matter of their respective disciplines to provide a fuller understanding of the world.

The second part of the book applies these disciplines to regional chapters, providing students with an understanding of the issues facing these regions and their connection to the global community. Case studies at the end of the book give studies students a closer look at the geographic, historical, cultural, economic, and political elements of issues such as genocide and national identity. This disciplinary and regional combination provides professors with a cohesive framework to teach the broad spectrum of international affairs through a wholly unique interdisciplinary approach that is indispensable for students’ understanding of global issues.

Elementary and Middle School Social Studies: An Interdisciplinary, Multicultural Approach

Description
Distinguished Teaching Professor Pamela Farris joins with leading experts, highly qualified in each area of elementary and middle school social studies, to continue a tradition of excellence that has been established in multiple editions. The Fifth Edition offers pre- and in-service teachers an accessible blend of theory and practice, with the NCSS Standards acting as the foundation for its interdisciplinary and multicultural focus.

Full of practical yet creative ideas to stimulate students' interest, this authoritative text is a valuable resource for helping learners to become good decision makers, use previously gained knowledge as a scaffold for further learning, develop a positive self-concept, gain an appreciation for the aesthetics of a subject, and become productive citizens. Outstanding features include: 1) developmentally appropriate NCSS Standards-Linked Lesson Plans are included within the chapters; 2) "In the Classroom" boxes enrich many of the concepts and offer teaching ideas; 3) examples of student work appear throughout the text; 4) up-to-date, annotated reading lists identify age-appropriate books for diverse learners; 5) Web sites and WebQuests are listed throughout the text and at the end of each chapter; 6) strategies for teaching students with special needs provide guidance for inclusive education; and 7) field-tested classroom activities serve as examples of how to offer students enjoyable and challenging learning experiences.

Becoming Interdisciplinary: An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies

Becoming Interdisciplinary: An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies

A STUDY OF LANGUAGE DIFFERENCES BASED ON SOCIAL CLASSES IN TITANIC MOVIE

ABSTRACT

By
Efriasti Ahza
04004156



This research entitled “A Study of Language Differences Based on Social Status in Titanic Movie” is intended to find out the kinds of language features used by upper class people, kinds of language features used by lower class people, and the similarities and differences of language features used by upper class and lower class people.

This research uses descriptive qualitative method because the researcher describes the data in form of words rather than numbers. The researcher uses dialogue used by men and women in the script of Titanic movie as the data source of this research. The technique used in collecting the data is noting technique. The researcher downloads the scripts of Titanic movie in the internet, then prints the scripts of Titanic movie. In analyzing the data, the researcher applies descriptive technique. She identifies and classifies the dialogues used by men and women in the scripts of Titanic movie and then she selects the dialogues by underlining the words, phrases, clauses, or sentences based on the diction, grammatical elements and pronunciation used by upper class and lower class people.

The result shows that upper class people in Titanic movie use standard forms of grammatical element, diction and pronunciation, and lower class people in Titanic movie often use vernacular forms of grammatical element, diction and pronunciation, but sometimes they also use standard forms. Language features used by upper class and lower class people are similar in conjunctions, prepositions, adverbs, colloquial, the pronunciation of [h] and the pronunciation of [r]. Meanwhile they are different in their hedge, verbs and modals, strong expletives, adjectives, and the pronunciation of ing [iŋ].

Quantitative Research Methods for Professionals in Education and Other Fields

This concise text discusses a wide range of quantitative research methods, including advanced techniques such as logic regression, multilevel modeling, and structural equation modeling. Because the text emphasizes concepts rather than mathematics and computational formulas, it is accessible to a wide range of research users, Professional practitioners in areas such as education, business, social work, and psychology gain an understanding of research methods, enabling them to interpret advanced research in their fields.

Features:
• Accessibility to readers of any level, including those with no mathematics beyond elementary arithmetic and a limited background in research methods and statistics, as text discusses advanced methods with ease.
• Three part organization–The Basics, Advanced Methods, and Specialized Applications–provides instructors the flexibility to choose among advanced techniques and specialized applications.
• Real data is used to illustrate and compare the uses of analytic techniques. Students are provided with the data sets so they can use a statistical package to try out the techniques on their own.
• Integrated discussions of design and measurement as well as analysis provide students with a complete picture of the entire research process.
• Helpful and thoughtful discussion questions help instructors and students probe subjects more deeply and apply the chapters’ concepts to topics of particular interest to them. • An informative self-test comprised of multiple-choice and true-false questions concludes each chapter.
• An online Instructor’s Manual contains discussion of self-test questions and their answers, as well as hundreds of additional field-tested test questions that instructors may use for their examinations.

Reasoning With Statistics: How To Read Quantitative Research

Description
This text is designed to help students become knowledgeable readers of cross-curriculum quantitative research literature. It provides a clear inviting view of quantitative research strategies for those students who may or may not have a mathematical background. The authors impart a conceptual understanding rather than teach calculational methods. The text can be used as a supplement for a basic statistics course or for any course requiring students to read and digest quantitative research literature. Examples are cross-curriculum and generic. Its strength is that it is very brief and doesn't overwhelm with too much detail.

Review: By Karen Vaughan "Herblady"

I used the first edition of Williams' Reasoning with Statistics in the late 70s when I was studying city and regional planning. I had an ambivalent to negative view of statistics (late registration had put me in the class.) But I came to enjoy both the subject and the book, and it led me to further statistical classes. I remember the title decades later. Its strength lies in showing how to use statistics meaningfully in the analysis of real world problems and it is designed to allow non mathemeticians to feel comfortable using statistical methods. It achieves its goal.