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Responses to Dr. @besencassino 's query on cool papers for a grad course on qualitative methods are fantastic. Am exhausted right now BUT self-promotion: @KateParizeau and I on ethics of ethnography of vulnerable populations journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117… (PDF #Free2DownloadAndRead
Ok, my brain was friend 20 minutes ago, I think I still have some energy in me. In response to @besencassino on qualitative methods, here are a few suggestions. Obviously Cresswell, Goertz and @BentFlyvbjerg on case studies, I think we've literally left Yin 1984 behind.
If you want to introduce process tracing and causal case studies, the work of @IRgetsreal Derek Beach, @TheDapperChef is very important (I recognise I am showing my huge political science bias here). BUT, at the same time, I would encourage you to check Field Studies and IJQM.
This is on asking good research questions in QM -- Agee, J. (2009). Developing qualitative research questions: A reflective process. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 22(4), 431–447. doi.org/10.1080/095183…
From the policy sciences scholarship, Lin, A. C. (1998). Bridging Positivist and Interpretivist Approaches to Qualitative Methods. Policy Studies Journal, 26(1), 162–180. doi.org/10.1111/j.1541… - also, Dvora Yanow on interpretive approaches.
A book, but one worth revisiting -- Creswell, J. W. (2009). Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Approaches (3rd Edition). Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. doi.org/10.2307/1523157
Totally showing my human geographer bias -- Crang, M. (2005). Qualitative methods: there is nothing outside the text? Progress in Human Geography, 29(2), 225–233. doi.org/10.1191/030913…
Also geography, important for case selection Curtis, S., Gesler, W., Smith, G., & Washburn, S. (2000). Approaches to Sampling and Case Selection in Qualitative Research: Examples in the Geography of Health. Social Science and Medicine, 50(7–8), 1001–1014. doi.org/10.1016/S0277-…
Obviously Strauss and Corbin are canon Corbin, J. M., & Strauss, A. (1990). Grounded theory research: Procedures, canons, and evaluative criteria. Qualitative Sociology, 13(1), 3–21. doi.org/10.1007/BF0098…
VERY important - on decolonising research methods, obviously DECOLONIZING METHODOLOGIES: RESEARCH AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
by Linda Tuhiwai Smith, 1999, Zed Books, London. I think this topic is somewhat overlooked in Western sociology though recently taken up by anthropology.
by Linda Tuhiwai Smith, 1999, Zed Books, London. I think this topic is somewhat overlooked in Western sociology though recently taken up by anthropology.
Obviously Ryan, G. W., & Bernard, H. R. (2003). Techniques to Identify Themes. Field Methods, 15(1), 85–109. doi.org/10.1177/152582… is one of the top articles that I use to teach my students how to code.
Conducting elite interviews - you should use chapters from @thwillow 's excellent "Interview Techniques in Political Science", particularly the chapter by the late Lee Ann Fuji on working with interpreters, Sarah Brooks' IRB chapter, Lauren Morris McLean's chapter on interviewers
Plus this article, which is quite straightforward Harvey, W. S. (2011). Strategies for conducting elite interviews. Qualitative Research, 11(4), 431–441. doi.org/10.1177/146879…
I don't care that this is a book, but van Maanen, J. (2011). Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography (2nd.). Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. doi.org/10.2307/590904 is a total MUST READ not only by aspiring ethnographers but by anyone who does qualitative.
This one Kleinman, S., Copp, M. A., & Henderson, K. A. (1997). Qualitatively Different. Teaching Fieldwork to Graduate Students. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 25(4), 469–499. doi.org/10.1177/014616… as well as Carole McGranahan on teaching ethnographic sensibility.
You can download the McGranahan article here teachinganthropology.org/ojs/index.php/… and now I'm done. I'm SO tired. </end thread> #QualitativeMethodsRPV
