Teaching / General Sociology
(2024) Qualitative Research Methods
Qualitative Research Methods
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Mills, C. Wright. 1959. The Sociological Imagination. London: Oxford, Appendix: On Intellectual Craftsmanship.
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Gentles, S. J., Charles, C., Ploeg, J., & McKibbon, K. 2015. Sampling in Qualitative Research: Insights from an Overview of the Methods Literature. The Qualitative Report, 20(11), pp. 1772-1789.
Morse, J. M., Barrett, M., Mayan, M., Olson, K., & Spiers, J. 2002. Verification strategies for establishing reliability and validity in qualitative research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 1(2), pp. 13-22.
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Bergman Blix, S., & Wettergren, Å. 2015. The emotional labour of gaining and maintaining access to the field. Qualitative Research, 15(6), pp. 688-704.
Fine, G., & Hallett, T. 2014. Stranger and stranger: creating theory through ethnographic distance and authority. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 3(2), pp. 188-203.
Wästerfors, David (2018). “Observations”, in Flick, Uwe (Ed.). (2017). The SAGE handbook of qualitative data collection. London: SAGE.
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Streck, D. 2007. Research and Social Transformation: Notes about Method and Methodology in Participatory Research. International Journal of Action Research 3(1+2): pp. 112-130.
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Legard, R., Keegan, J., & Ward, K. (2003). In-depth interviews. In Jane
Ritchie and Jane Lewis (eds.) Qualitative research practice: A guide for social science students and researchers, London; Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE: 138-169.
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Elo, S. & Kynga, S H. 2008. The qualitative content analysis process. Journal of Advanced Nursing 62(1), pp. 107–115.
Mayring P. (2000) Qualitative Content Analysis. Forum Qualitative Social Research 1(2): art. 20. http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1089
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Rose, Gillian. 2016. Chapters 1 and 2: “Researching with Visual Materials: A Brief Survey” and “Towards a Critical Visual Methodology”, in Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials (4th Edition), pp. 1-47.
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Kitzinger, J., & Barbour, R. (Eds.). (1999). Developing focus group research: politics, theory and practice. London: Sage. Introduction: 1-20.
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Small Mario L. 2009. “How many Cases do I Need?” On Science and the Logic of Case Selection in Field-Based Research. Ethnography 10(1), pp. 5–38.
Other readings:
Banks, Marcus. 2001. “Encountering the Visual”, in Visual Methods in Social Research, pp. 13-42.
Bengtsson, B. & Hertting, N. 2014. ‘Generalization by Mechanism: Thin Rationality and Ideal-Type Analysis in Case Study Research’, Philosophy of the Social Sciences 44, no. 6, pp. 707–32.
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1991. Language and symbolic power. Cambridge: Polity. Chapter 1, pp. 37-65.
Brinkmann, Svend & Kvale, Steinar. 2005. Confronting the ethics of qualitative research. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 18(2): 157-181.
Cameron, J. 2005. ‘Focussing on the Focus Group’, in Iain Hay (ed.), Qualitative
Research Methods in Human Geography, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Chapter 8.
Christians, C. 2018. Ethics and Politics in Qualitative Research. In Denzin, N. & Lincoln, Y.S. (Eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research. Fifth edition. Thousand Oaks: Sage, pp. 142-171.
Guba, E. & Lincoln, Y.S. 1994. Competing Paradigms in Qualitative Research. In Denzin, N. & Lincoln, Y.S. (Eds.). Handbook of Qualitative Research. Thousand Oaks: Sage, pp. 105-117.
Kidd, P. & Parshall, M. 2000. Getting the Focus and the Group: Enhancing Analytical Rigor in Focus Group Research. Qualitative Health Research 10, pp. 293-308.
Guest, Greg; Namey, Emily E. and Mitchell, Marilyn L. (2013) Collecting Qualitative Data: A Field Manual for Applied Research. London: Sage. Chapter 3.
Hall, S. (2001) Foucault: Power, Knowledge and Discourse. In Wetherell, Margaret; Taylor, Stephanie; Yates, Simeon J. (eds.) Discourse theory and practice: a reader. London: Sage-Open University, pp. 72-81. (Reprinted from Hall, S. [1997] Representation: cultural representations and signifying practices. London: Sage-Open University.)
Jacobsson, Katarina; Åkerström, Malin. 2012. Interviewees with an agenda: learning from a ‘failed’ interview. Qualitative Research, 13 (6), pp. 717-734.
Katz, J. 2001. From how to why: On luminous description and causal inference in ethnography (Part I). Ethnography, 2(4), pp. 443-473.
Knoblauch, Hubert; Schnettler, Bernt. 2012. “Videography: analysing video data as a ‘focused’ ethnographic and hermeneutical exercise”, Qualitative Research, 12 (3), pp. 334-356
Lewis-Kraus, G. (2016) The Trials of Alice Goffman. New York Times
Lincoln, Y.S.; Lynham, S.A. & Guba, E. 2018. Paradigmatic Controversies, Contradictions, and Emerging Confluences, Revisited. In Denzin, N. & Lincoln, Y.S. (Eds.). Handbook of Qualitative Research. Thousand Oaks: Sage, pp. 213-263.
Martínez, M. (2023) Activist Research as a Methodological Toolbox to Advance Public Sociology. Sociology. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380385231219207
Martínez López, M., and Lorenzi, E. (2012). Autonomous Activist-Research: the Case of the Squatters’ Movement in Madrid. Revista Internacional de Sociologia, 70(2), 165-184
McDonald, S. 2005. Studying actions in context: a qualitative shadowing method for organizational research. Qualitative Research, 5(4), pp. 455-473.
Morris, A. 2015. A Practical Introduction to In-Depth Interviewing. London: Sage. (Chapter 1)
Piven, F. F. 2010. Reflections on scholarship and activism. Antipode 42, pp. 806-10.
Polanska, Dominika & Richard, Åse (2021) Resisting renovictions: Tenants organizing against housing companies’ renewal practices in Sweden. Radical Housing Journal 3(1): 187-205.
Punch, M. 1994. Politics and Ethics in Qualitative Research. In Denzin, N. & Lincoln, Y.S. (Eds.). Handbook of Qualitative Research. Thousand Oaks: Sage, pp. 83-97.
Ragin, Charles C. 1992. “Introduction: Case of “What is a Case? In Ragin, Ch. and Becker (Eds.) What Is a Case? Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry. Cambridge University Press, Chapter 1, pp. 1-17.
Ragin, C. et al (Eds.) (2004) Workshop on Scientific Foundations of Qualitative Research. Arlington: NSF.
Ruiz, Jorge (2017) Collective Production of Discourse: an approach based on the Qualitative School of Madrid. In Barbour, Rosaline S. & Morgan, David L. (eds.) A New Era in Focus Group Research. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 277‐300.
Scott, John, 1990. A matter of records. Documentary sources in social research. Cambridge: Polity, pp. 1-35, 59-82 and 96-143.
Silverman, David (2017) Doing qualitative research. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Skocpol, Theda, 1987. Social History and Historical Sociology: Contrasts and Complementarities. Social Science History, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 17-30.
Song, Miri; Parker, David. 1995. Commonality, difference and the dynamics of disclosure in in-depth interviewing. Sociology, 29(2), pp. 241–56.
Van Dijk, T. 1993. Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis. Discourse and Society 4(2), pp. 249-283.
Wacquant, L. (2002) Scrutinizing the Street: Poverty, Morality, and the Pitfalls of Urban Ethnography. American Journal of Sociology 107(6): 1468–1532.
Wodak, R., & Meyer, M. (Eds.). (2009). Methods for critical discourse analysis. Sage. Chapter 1
Wyly, E. (2011) Positively Radical. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 35(5): 889-912.
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- 1959_Mills (PDF – 3.5 Mb)
- 1987_Scockpol (PDF – 1 Mb)
- 1991_Bourdieu (PDF – 3.7 Mb)
- 1992_Ragin (PDF – 1.4 Mb)
- 1993_Van_Dijk (PDF – 4.2 Mb)
- 1994_Punch (PDF – 220.4 kb)
- 1994_Guba_Lincoln (PDF – 3.3 Mb)
- 1995_Song (PDF – 2 Mb)
- 1999_Kitzinger_Focus_Groups (PDF – 814.3 kb)
- 2000_Kidd (PDF – 162.6 kb)
- 2000_Mayring (PDF – 267.1 kb)
- 2001_Banks (PDF – 3.8 Mb)
- 2001_Katz (PDF – 2.7 Mb)
- 2001_Hall (PDF – 1.4 Mb)
- 2002_Morse (PDF – 247.5 kb)
- 2002_Wacquant (PDF – 368.4 kb)
- 2003_Legard_Interviews (PDF – 2.2 Mb)
- 2004_Ragin_et_al (PDF – 915.8 kb)
- 2005_Cameron (PDF – 439.1 kb)
- 2005_Brinkmann (PDF – 270.5 kb)
- 2005_McDonald (PDF – 85.9 kb)
- 2007_Streck (PDF – 18.3 Mb)
- 2008_Wodack_Discourse_Analysis (PDF – 338.5 kb)
- 2008_Prasad_Content_Analysis (PDF – 93.3 kb)
- 2009_Zhang_Quali_Analysis (PDF – 54.7 kb)
- 2009_Small (PDF – 236 kb)
- 2010_Piven (PDF – 48.4 kb)
- 2011_Swedish_Research_Council (PDF – 1.5 Mb)
- 2011_Wyly (PDF – 214.7 kb)
- 2012_Knoblauch (PDF – 1.9 Mb)
- 2012_Martinez_Lorenzi (PDF – 1.3 Mb)
- 2012_Jacobsson (PDF – 469.8 kb)
- 2013_Guest_Participant_Observation (PDF – 892.8 kb)
- 2013_Bengtsson (PDF – 501.4 kb)
- 2013_Fine (PDF – 244.9 kb)
- 2014_Elo_Quali_Analysis (PDF – 292.6 kb)
- 2014_Bergman (PDF – 316.8 kb)
- 2015_Gentles (PDF – 663.9 kb)
- 2015_Morris (PDF – 351.1 kb)
- 2016_Alice_Goffman_NYT (PDF – 780.3 kb)
- 2016_Rose_Visual_methodologies (PDF – 3.5 Mb)
- 2017_Ruiz (PDF – 170.3 kb)
- 2017_Silverman (PDF – 6.7 Mb)
- 2018_Wasterfors (PDF – 717 kb)
- 2018_Lincoln_et_al (PDF – 674.1 kb)
- 2018_Christians (PDF – 187.6 kb)
- 2021_Polanska_Richard (PDF – 1.3 Mb)
- 2023_Martinez_Activist_Research (PDF – 185.8 kb)