Keywords in Qualitative Methods

Access Negotiations/Action Research/Analytic Induction /Analytic Notes (see Research Diary)/Authenticity (see Naturalism)/Authorial presence (see Reflexivity)/Audio-recording/Autoethnography/Bias /Biographies/Case Study/Chicago School (see Symbolic Interactionism) /Citizens' Jury/Coding (see Indexing)/Cognitive Mapping/Community Studies (see Action Research and Ethnography)/Computer-Assisted Data Analysis /Computer Mediated Interviewing (see Electronic Data Collection)/Confessional Accounts (see Writing)/Constant Comparative Method (see Grounded Theory)/Conversation Analysis/Covert Research/Critical Cases (see Case Study)/Dangerous Fieldwork/Data Protection (see Ethics)/Deconstructionism (see Discourse Analysis) /Delphi Groups/Depth Interviews (see Interviewing)/Deviant Case Analysis (see Analytic Induction)/Diary Methods /Discourse Analysis/Documentary Methods/Electronic Data Collection /Ethics /Ethnography/Ethnomethodology/Feminist Methods /Fieldnotes/Fieldwork Relationships /Focus Groups/Foreshadowed Problems (see Ethnography)/Gatekeepers (see Access Negotiations)/Generalisation/Going Native (see Bias)/Grounded Theory/Group Interviews/Indexing/Indigenous Researchers (see Public Participation)/Informed Consent (see Ethics)/Interviews /Key Informants/Leaving the Field/Life History (see Oral History)/Logical Analysis/Member Validation (see Triangulation)/Meta Ethnography/Mixed Methods (see Multiple Methods)/Multiple Methods /Narratives/Naturalism/Observation (see Ethnography)/Oral History/Participant Observation (see Ethnography)/Phenomenological Methods/Piloting/Positivism (see Naturalism)/Postmodernism/Post-Structuralism (see Postmodernism)/Process Evaluation/Public Participation/Public/Private Accounts/Public Sociology (see Whose Side Are We On?)/Purposive Sampling (see Sampling)/Qualitative/Quantitative Combinations (see Multiple Methods)/Rapid Assessment /Realism (see Naturalism)/Reflexivity/Reliability/Research Diary/Researcher Safety (see Dangerous Fieldwork)/Respondent Validation (see Triangulation)/Sampling /Semi-Structured Interviews (see Interviews)/Social Network Analysis/Software (see Computer-Assisted Data Analysis)/Symbolic Interactionism /Taxonomies /Telephone Interviewing (see Electronic Data Collection) /Thick Description (see Theoretical Saturation)/Theoretical Sampling (see Sampling)/Theoretical Saturation/Time Sampling (see Sampling)/Transcription/Triangulation/Trust/Uses of Qualitative Research/Video Recording/Video Analysis (see Video Recording)/Vignettes/Virtual Focus Groups (see Focus Groups)/Validity (see Reliability)/Whose Side Are We On?/Writing