Describes consensual qualitative research, an inductive method characterized by open-ended interview questions, small samples, a reliance on words over numbers, the importance of context, an integration of multiple viewpoints (for example, the consensus of the research team and auditors), and a high emphasis on rigour and replicability.
Provides a step-by-step description of how to use critical-constructivist grounded theory methods. This flexible approach can aid researchers in investigating topics within psychological, interpersonal, and sociocultural contexts.
In this step-by-step guide to conducting a research study, Linda McMullen describes the innovative ways in which discursive psychology analyses language at both the micro and macro levels. Discursive psychologists reconceptualize talk and text as being situated in a social context, rather than thinking of talk as a route to our thoughts.
Provides a step-by-step guide to writing autoethnography, illustrating its essential features and practices with excerpts from his own and others' work. Autoethnography is an approach to research and writing that describes and analyses one's personal experience in various contexts to understand its cultural, social, and emotional meaning.
Introduces readers to ideal-type analysis, a method for forming typologies from qualitative data. The authors present the background to this approach, the steps required to conduct an ideal-type analysis, and guidance on writing up a study using this method.
Leading authorities describe established and emerging methodologies, review the types of questions they are suited to address, and identify standards for quality. Key issues in research design are accessibly discussed.
Stripped examines the ways in which erotic bodies communicate in performance and as cultural figures. Focusing on symbols independent of language, Maggie M. Werner explores the signs and signals of erotic dance, audience responses to these codes, and how this exchange creates embodied rhetoric.
Examines the rhetorical practices that generate and sustain discrimination against disabled people. Demonstrates how ableist values, knowledge, and ways of seeing pervade Western culture and influence social institutions such as law, sport, and religion.
Drawing from the writings of John Dewey, identifies the core attitudes of fascism, sets forth an idea of democracy as communicative practice, and defines the values and methods of humanistic logic, aesthetics, and rhetoric.
