Keywords in Qualitative Methods A Vocabulary of Research Concepts

includes index and biblioraphy

Access negotiations.........5 Action research ..........9 Analytic Induction ..........13 Analytic notes..............16 Authenticity ...........18 Bias.......21 Biographies.........24 Casestudy .....27 Citizen`s Jury ...............31 Cognitive mapping .........32 Computer -assisted data analysis .......35 Conversation analysis .......39 Covert research ...........43 Dangerous fieldwork ........47 Delphi Groups........49 Diary methods .......50 Discourse analysis ..............53 Documentary methods ....57 Electronic Data Collection ............61 Ethics ............64 Ethnography......69 Ethnomethodology....75 Feminist methods .....79 Fieldnotes....82 Fieldwork relationships.............85 Focus Groups.......88 Gatekeepers..........93 Generalization .......93 Grounded theory .95 Group interviews ..........99 Indexing ..........101 Indigenous researchers........101 Informed consent ......104 Key informants....109 Leaving the field .........111 Logical analysis ............113 Member validation , Meta ethnography .115 Multiple methods ......116 Narratives ......119 Naturalism ........122 Observation ........125 Oral History ......125 Participant observation ......128 Phenomenological Methods .128 Piloting .......130 Postmodernism .....132 Public participation ..........135 Public private accounts ................136 Public Sociology .........139 Qualitative /Quantitative Combinations Rapid assessment ....143 Reliability /validity ...........147 Researcher safety .......150 Sampling ............153 Social Network analysis .......157 Symbolic interactionism ...........159 Taxonomies ......163 Theoretical saturation .............164 Transcription .........166 Triangulation .............170 Trust.........173 Uses of Qualitative research .........176 Video-recording .....180 Vignettes....183 Whose side are we on..........185 Writing ......187