Research Catalog

Title

Qualitative inquiry and the politics of evidence / Norman K. Denzin, Michael D. Giardina, editors.

Publication

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, ©2008.

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Additional Authors

• Denzin, Norman K.
• Giardina, Michael D., 1976-

Description

352 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

What is evidence in qualitative inquiry and how is it evaluate? Things defined as true or false in research are strongly influenced by social criteria and by the politics of academia. As a challenge to the dominance of conservative science, qualitative researchers are often victimized by these politics, both in the academy and the policy arena.

Subject

• Qualitative research
• Evidence
• 70.03 methods, techniques and organization of social science research
• Qualitative Methode
• Politischer Stil
• Evidenz
• Social science research
• Qualitative methods
• Proof (science)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. The Elephant in the Living Room, OR Advancing the Conversation about the Politics of Evidence / Norman K. Denzin and Michael D. Giardina -- Sect. I. Policy Intentions -- 1. Building Confidence in Qualitative Research: Engaging the Demands of Policy / Harry Torrance -- 2. On Promoting Rigor in Educational Research: The Example of the UK's Research Assessment Exercise? / Ian Stronach -- 3. Isolating Science from the Humanities: The Third Dogma of Educational Research / Kenneth R. Howe -- 4. A Fine Line: Positioning Qualitative Inquiry in the Wake of the Politics of Evidence / Julianne Cheek -- Sect. II. Theoretical and Methodological Interruptions -- 5. The Evidentiary Narrative: Notes toward a Symbolic Interactionist Perspective about Evidence / David L. Altheide -- 6. The Value of a Realist Understanding of Causality for Qualitative Research / Joseph A. Maxwell -- 7. (Post)Feminist Methodology: Getting Lost, OR a Scientificity We Can Bear to Learn from / Patti Lather -- 8. Qualitative Researchers' Conceptualizations of the Risks Inherent in Qualitative Interviews / Janice M. Morse, Linda Niehaus, Stanley Varnhagen, Wendy Austin and Michele McIntosh -- Sect. III. Performative Interventions -- 9. Narrative Poetics and Performative Interventions / D. Soyini Madison -- 10. From Politicized Knowledge to Standardized Knowing: The Trickle-Down Effect in Schools / Christopher Darius Stonebanks -- 11. Heartbeats: Exploring the Power of Qualitative Research Expressed as Auto/Ethnographic Performance Texts / Mary E. Weems, Carolyne J. White, Clarence Shelley, Patricia Alvarez McHatton, Lois Melina, Phoenix deCarteret, Ruth Nicole Brown, Jonathan Wyatt, Jackie Goode, Tim Bond and Lois Ann Scheidt -- 12. Cancer and Death: A Love Story in Many Voices / Leah Vande Berg and Nick Trujillo.

ISBN

• 9781598743210
• 159874321X
• 9781598743227
• 1598743228

LCCN

2008013787

OCLC

• ocn183262318
• 183262318
• SCSB-14367142

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library