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.
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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: Ethics and qualitative research 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 Practices: Theory, Method, Trends Erika Cellini and Giampietro Gobo 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: Documents and Documentation Jamie Lewis and Paul Atkinson Part V: Talk Chapter 12: Discursive Psychology - cognition and emotion in interaction Jonathan Chapter 13: Conversation Analysis: Practices and Methods John Heritage Part VI: Expanding Technologies Chapter 14: Analysing online data David C. Giles Chapter 15: Using CDA on internet data Johann W. Unger, Ruth Wodak and Majid Khosravinik Chapter 16: Researchers and Machines: Navigating the methodologically responsible use of Artificial Intelligence Tools in Data Analysis Christian Schmieder Part VII: Visual Data Chapter 17: Analysing visual data Susan Danby and Michael Emmison Chapter 18: Video and the Analysis of Social Interaction Christian Heath Part VIII: 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 Anthony Bryant and Kathy Charmaz Chapter 22: Narrative ethnography and Everyday Storytelling Jaber Gubrium, James Holstein and Amir Marvasti Chapter 23: Systematic reviews and qualitative methods Mary Dixon-Woods Chapter 24: Secondary analysis of qualitative data Libby Bishop Chapter 25: Validity in research Anssi Peraekylae Chapter 26: The three faces of writing qualitative research: practice, genre and audience Amir Marvasti