A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research 2/e

David Silverman trained as a sociologist at the London School of Economics and the University of California, Los Angeles. He taught for 32 years at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he is now Emeritus Professor in the Sociology Department as well as Visiting Professor in the Business Schools, King's College, London, Leeds University and University of Technology Sydney and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology. He is interested in conversation and discourse analysis and he has researched medical consultations, shelters for homeless people and HIV-test counselling. He is the author of Doing Qualitative Research (sixth edition, 2022) and A Very Short, Fairly Interesting, Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research (second edition, 2013c). He is the editor of Qualitative Research (fifth edition, 2021) and the Sage series Introducing Qualitative Methods. In recent years, he has offered short, hands-on workshops in qualitative research for universities in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Now retired from full-time work, he aims to watch 100 days of county cricket a year. He also enjoys spending time with his grandchildren and great-grandsons as well as voluntary work in an old people's home where he chats and sings with residents.

Introduction Preface: Making a Space for This Book Chapter 1: Innumerable Inscrutable Habits: Why Unremarkable Things Matter Chapter 2: On Finding and Manufacturing Qualitative Data Chapter 3: Instances or Sequences? Chapter 4: Applying Qualitative Research Chapter 5: The Aesthetics of Qualitative Research: On Bullshit and Tonsils A Very Short Conclusion

David Silverman guides the reader along an enlightening pathway, exploring current issues relevant to studying the minutia of social life through naturalistic data. Sarah Seymour-Smith Nottingham Trent University A very short suggestion: read it immediately and discover how qualitative research is best carried out! Lars Strannegard Stockholm School of Economics With this book it is Silverman's explicit intention to go beyond basic texts on research methods and elicit an interest in the arguments within the field of qualitative inquiry. In this sense, Silverman has achieved his goal of challenging accepted understandings of qualitative research methods. -- Rachel Fang