Research Catalog

Title

Qualitative research design : an interactive approach / Joseph A. Maxwell.

Author

Maxwell, Joseph Alex, 1941-

Publication

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, c2013.

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Details

Description

xi, 218 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

• "Written in an informal, jargon-free style, [this book] provides researchers and students with a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to planning qualitative research. It shows how the components of design interact with each other, and provides a strategy for creating coherent and workable relationships among these design components, highlighting key design issues. The text offers an original, innovative model of design based on a systemic rather than a linear or typological strucure, which is well suited for designing studies and writing research proposals"--P. [4] of cover.
• "Incorporates examples and hands-on exercises"--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Applied social research methods ; 41

Uniform Title

Applied social research methods series ; v. 41.

Subject

• Research > Methodology
• Qualitative Research
• Research Design

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A model for qualitative research design -- Goals : why are you doing this study? -- Conceptual framework : what do you think is going on? -- Research questions : what do you want to understand? -- Methods : what will you actually do? -- Validity : how might you be wrong? -- Research proposals : presenting and justifying a qualitative study.

ISBN

• 9781412981194 (pbk.)
• 1412981190 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2012012021

OCLC

• 793973487
• SCSB-12815835

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library