by Dr Rosaline Barbour (Editor), ProfessorJennyKitzinger (Editor), Jenny Kitzinger (Author), Rosaline Barbour (Author)
This book critically examines the potential of, and suggests ways forward in, harnessing a versatile and powerful method of research - focus groups. The book challenges some of the emerging orthodoxies and presents accessible, insightful and reflective discussions about the issues around focus group work.
The contributors, an impressive group of experienced researchers from a range of disciplines and traditions, discuss different ways of designing, conducting and analyzing focus group research. They examine sampling strategies; the implications of combining focus groups with other methods; accessing views of `minority' groups; their contribution to participatory or feminist research; use of software packages; discourse analysis; and the epistemological and political underpinnings of research.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: 29 Dec 1998
ISBN 10: 0761955682
ISBN 13: 9780761955689