A realist approach for qualitative research
Instructs readers on how to use realism to conceptualize and conduct their qualitative study to get results with greater validity
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Thousand Oaks, California :
Sage Publications ,
c2012
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Table of Contents:
- 1. What is realism, and why should qualitative researchers care?
- 2. Meaning and culture are real
- 3. Causation is real
- 4. Diversity is real
- 5. The realities of research design
- 6. Research relationships and data collection
- 7. Real and virtual relationships in qualitative data analysis (with Barbara Miller)
- 8. Understanding, validity, and evidence
- 9. Explaining Plains Indian Social Organization
- 10. Meaning and diversity in Inuit kinship and culture