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A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research (Very Short, Fairly Interesting & Cheap Books)

A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research (Very Short, Fairly Interesting & Cheap Books)

by ProfessorDavidSilverman (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

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Synopsis

This is the book which everybody doing a research project has been waiting for. Writing in an informal and accessible style, David Silverman offers the reader an entry into the broader issues of qualitative research that many textbooks gloss over - the underlying arguments of qualitative research and the key debates about its future direction.

Silverman shows how good research can be methodologically inventive, empirically rigorous, theoretically-alive and practically relevant. Using fascinating materials, ranging from photographs to novels and newspaper stories, this book demonstrates that getting to grips with these issues means asking ourselves fundamental questions about how we are influenced by contemporary culture.

David Silverman provides an antidote to the boring textbook, which is relevant to any degree course on research methods. Brilliantly written and always challenging and entertaining, this book will challenge your perceptions and help you think `out of the box' about the nature and process of doing qualitative research.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 168
 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: 08 Aug 2007
ISBN 10: 1412945968
ISBN 13: 9781412945967

Media Reviews
'This text book lives up to its title. Steering clear of the formulaic approach taken by textbooks, Silverman seeks to challenge some underlying assumptions about the nature of qualitative research....This book comes highly recommended, both for those interested in qualitative research, as well as students who like a challenge
Carole Murphy
Network

`Clear and incisive, this valuable text needs to be on every qualitative researcher's bookshelf. What could be handier? I recommend it to anyone in the trade for its seasoned good sense and advice
Jay Gibrium
University of Missouri

`David Silverman has drawn on his enormous experience in writing, teaching and using qualitative research methods to produce a book that lays bare key dilemmas and confronts questions that qualitative researchers often avoid
Jonathan Potter
Loughborough University

The main strength of this book is its clarity to raise awareness of the implications for carrying out qualitative research. For ungergraduates I would consider this to be an important supplimentary text to have at hand...For expereinced student researchers this is an excellent text to help you raise interesting and searching questions to realise new avenues that could be followed in your qualitative research
Simon Kawycz
Journal of Qualitative Research in Sports Studies

Author Bio
David Silverman is Visiting Professor in the Business School, University of Technology, Sydney, Emeritus Professor in the Sociology Department, Goldsmiths' College and Adjunct Professor in the School of Education, Queensland University of Technology. He has lived in London for most of his life, where he attended Christ's College Finchley and did a BSc (Economics) at the London School of Economics in the 1960s. Afterwards, he went to the USA for graduate work, obtaining an MA in the Sociology Department, University of California, Los Angeles. He returned to LSE to write a PhD on organization theory. This was published as The Theory of Organizations in 1970. Apart from brief spells teaching at UCLA, his main teaching career was at Goldsmiths College. His three major research projects were on decision making in the Personnel Department of the Greater London Council (Organizational Work, written with Jill Jones, 1975), paediatric outpatient clinics (Communication and Medical Practice, 1987) and HIV-test counselling (Discourses of Counselling, 1997). He pioneered a taught MA in Qualitative Research at Goldsmiths in 1985 and supervised around 30 successful PhD students. Since becoming Emeritus Professor in 1999, he has continued publishing methodology books. David regularly runs qualitative research workshops for five universities in Sydney and Brisbane. He has also run workshops for research students in Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France, Sri Lanka and Tanzania. Since 2000, he has done voluntary work with people with dementia. resident in an old people's home Besides all this, David's other interests include classical music, literary fiction, bridge, county cricket and spending time with his grandchildren.