Qualitative Research

A comprehensive book that enables the reader to easily understand the principles of qualitative research. David Silverman’s books have been indispensable throughout my own research – brilliant!

Many years of teaching how to do qualitative research to management and social science research students means that I always recommend David Silverman’s Qualitative Research as the the go to text. It is simply the best.



This book contains everything that a qualitative researcher needs to know and a quantitative researcher needs to learn. Written by the world-renowned authorities in their fields, this edition covers all issues relevant to qualitative research, from choosing the research topic through fieldwork techniques, analytical approaches, and the ways to write it all up. 


Silverman provides a welcome new edition to an accessibly written, coherently organised and comprehensive introduction to qualitative research. It is an interesting and informative read with clear and concise explanations and is an essential for researchers using qualitative methods and analysing data.
Want to understand qualitative research? This is the must-have book for you. This 4^th edition is unquestionably the very best work on qualitative research that I have read, with an expanded section on new technologies.  I wholeheartedly recommend this book to students, researchers, policy makers and everyone with an interest in qualitative research.

PART I SETTING THE SCENE
Chapter 1: Introducing Qualitative Research - David Silverman
Chapter 2: Addressing Social Problems through Qualitative Research - Ross Koppel and Joel Telles
Chapter 3: Research Ethics: Between Care and Control - Anne Ryen
PART II INTERVIEWS AND FOCUS GROUPS
Chapter 4: The `Inside' and the `Outside': Finding Realities in Interviews - Jody Miller and Barry Glassner
Chapter 5: Interviewing as a form of Narrative Practice - James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium
Chapter 6: Analysing Focus Group Data - Sue Wilkinson
PART III ETHNOGRAPHY
Chapter 7 Ethnographic Approaches: Types, Trends and Themes - Giampietro Gobo and Erika Cellini
Chapter 8: Organizational Ethnography - Thomas Eberle and Christoph Maeder
Chapter 9: Practising Reflexivity in Ethnography - Marie Buscatto
PART IV TEXTS
Chapter 10: Analysing Documents Through Fieldwork - Katarina Jacobsson
Chapter 11: Using Documents in Social Research - Lindsay Prior
PART V TALK
Chapter 12: Discursive Psychology and Naturally Occurring Talk - Jonathan Potter
Chapter 13: Conversation Analysis: Practices and Methods - John Heritage
PART VI EXPANDING TECHNOLOGIES
Chapter 14: Using Conversation Analysis and Discursive Psychology to Analyse Online Data - Joanne Meredith
Chapter 15: Critical Discourse Studies and Social Media Data - Johann W. Unger, Ruth Wodak and Majid Khosravinik
Chapter 16: Working with Video and Online Data: From Field Work to Analysis - Susan Danby
PART VII VISUAL DATA
Chapter 17: Visual Research: Issues and Developments - Michael Emmison
Chapter 18: Embodied Action: Video and the Analysis of Social Interaction - Christian Heath
PART VII QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS
Chapter 19: Some Pragmatics of Qualitative Data Analysis - Tim Rapley
Chapter 20: Multimethod Qualitative Research - Nanna Mik-Meyer
Chapter 21: Constructing Grounded Theory Analyses - Kathy Charmaz and Antony Bryant
Chapter 22: Narrative Approaches to Social Science - Barbara Czarniawska
Chapter 23: Systematic Reviews and Qualitative Studies - Mary Dixon-Woods
Chapter 24: Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data - Libby Bishop
Chapter 25: Validity in Qualitative Research - Anssi Peräkylä
Chapter 26: Writing Qualitative Research: Practice, Genre, and Audience - Amir Marvasti