Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials

This book is the third of three paperback volumes taken from The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Fourth Edition. It introduces the researcher to basic methods of gathering analyzing and interpreting qualitative empirical materials. Part 1 moves from narrative inquiry to critical arts-based inquiry to oral history observations visual methodologies and autoethnographic methods. It then takes up analysis methods including computer-assisted methodologies focus groups as well as strategies for analyzing talk and text. The chapters in Part II discuss evidence interpretive adequacy forms of representation post-qualitative inquiry the new information technologies and research the politics of evidence writing and evaluation practices.