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The science of qualitative research / Martin Packer.

By: Packer, Martin J.
Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011Description: xiii, 422 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780521768870 (hbk.); 052176887X (hbk.); 9780521148818 (pbk.); 0521148812 (pbk.).Subject(s): Social sciences -- Research | Qualitative researchDDC classification: 300.723
Contents:
Part I. The objective study of subjectivity: 1. What is science?; 2. The qualitative research interview; 3. The analysis of qualitative research interviews; 4. Hermeneutics and the project for a human science; 5. Qualitative analysis reconsidered -- Part II. Ethnographic fieldwork - the focus on constitution: 6. Calls for a new interpretive social science; 7. Dualism and constitution: the social construction of reality; 8. Constitution as ontological; 9. The crisis in ethnography; 10. Studying ontological work -- Part III. Inquiry with an emancipatory interest: 11. Qualitative research as critical inquiry; 12. Emancipatory inquiry as rational reconstruction; 13. Social science as participant objectification; 14. Archaeology, genealogy, ethics; 15. A historical ontology of ourselves.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-418) and indexes.

Part I. The objective study of subjectivity: 1. What is science?; 2. The qualitative research interview; 3. The analysis of qualitative research interviews; 4. Hermeneutics and the project for a human science; 5. Qualitative analysis reconsidered -- Part II. Ethnographic fieldwork - the focus on constitution: 6. Calls for a new interpretive social science; 7. Dualism and constitution: the social construction of reality; 8. Constitution as ontological; 9. The crisis in ethnography; 10. Studying ontological work -- Part III. Inquiry with an emancipatory interest: 11. Qualitative research as critical inquiry; 12. Emancipatory inquiry as rational reconstruction; 13. Social science as participant objectification; 14. Archaeology, genealogy, ethics; 15. A historical ontology of ourselves.