Rocking qualitative social science an irreverent guide to rigorous research
Unlike other athletes, the rock climber tends to disregard established norms of style and technique, doing whatever she needs to do to get to the next foothold. This figure provides an apt analogy for the scholar at the center of this unique book. In Rocking Qualitative Social Science, Ashley Rubin...
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Stanford, California
Stanford University Press
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction to Dirtbagging
- 2 Topo: What Exactly Are Qualitative Methods?
- 3 Picking Your Proj: Identifying Your Research Question
- 4 On Belay: Connecting Your Work to an Anchor
- 5 Mapping out the Route: How and When Research Design Matters
- 6 Starting on the Right Foot: Making and Justifying Your Case Selection
- 7 Flaking out the Rope: How to Check Your Sample
- 8 Bivvy Time: The Fieldwork Model of Data Collection
- 9 The Crux: Content Analysis, Analytic Memos, and Other Tricks
- 10 Placing Pro: Making Causal Claims with Qualitative Data
- 11 Living on the Sharp End: Dealing with Skeptics of Qualitative Research
- 12 The Sweeper
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index