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The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research

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This is a reference book for all qualitative researchers and even the occasional quantitative researcher. Keep it close by. Learn to use it. A work sure to satisfy.

This is a great resource if you are interested in exploring the wonders of qualitative research. Denzin and Lincoln provide excellent overviews of the issues in each section, followed by chapters written by notables from a range of different perspectives. I would highly recommend it if qual research is your thing :)

This was a required text for one of my graduate Professional Communication classes. If I lost it, I would have to buy another one because it's that good. And these text books are expensive. My professors have entire libraries at their disposal, and they chose this particular book for one of their courses. 'nuff said.

Definitive collection that evolves as does the field of qualitative research and its tools. Have loaned it out already. Nice work.

that book been a nice one even thou it was so expensive it worth it. and the sender was quick

Es como una Biblia para los investigadores que quieren aprender sobre la investigación cualitativa

The contents are a little complex but comprehensive. It is a perfect book for my academic research.

Amazing book. It is a "must have" for any qualitative researcher or research student.

An uneven survey of an uneven field - and that's just the way they want it to be. Qualitative research is essentially a reaction to the excesses of qualitative research - that is, how do we do successful research on humans and human behavior without reducing them to numbers and statistics? Essentially, qualitative method is an elaborate defense of not needing a method - with good philosophical and historical backing.

Unfortunately, this refusal to engage in method results in a fantastically wide spread of quality. Qualitative means quality of any kind - including uninteresting and irrelevant. The third edition of the SAGE Handbook commits itself explicitly to progressive politics, which is fine if you agree with the politics (as I do) but somewhat puzzling given the authors' repeated insistence elsewhere that the method is not a political method. Read Denzin and Lincoln's helpful (although strident) introduction, Ken Plummer's essay on queer theory and humanism in tension, Susan Chases' excellent essay on narrative inquiry, and Richardson and Pierre's very helpful and practical guide to writing as inquiry. Cherry pick the rest and laugh at the most self-indulgent.