Handbook of qualitative research / Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1. Introduction: The discipline and practice of qualitative research -- Part I. Locating the field -- 2. Qualitative methods: Their history in sociology and anthropology -- 3. Reconstructing the relationships between universities and society through action research -- 4. For whom? Qualitative research, representations, and social responsibilities -- 5. Ethics and politics in qualitative research -- Part II. Paradigms and perspectives in transition -- 6. Paradigmatic controversies, contradictions, and emerging confluences -- 7. Three epistemological stances for qualitative inquiry: Interpretivism, hermeneutics, and social constructionism -- 8. Feminisms and qualitative research at and into the millennium -- 9. Racialized discourses and ethnic epistemologies -- 10. Rethinking critical theory and qualitative research -- 11. Cultural studies -- 12. Sexualities, queer theory, and qualitative research -- Part III. Strategies of inquiry -- 13. The choreography of qualitative research design: Minuets, improvisations, and crystallization -- 14. An untold story? Doing funded qualitative research -- 15. Performance ethnography: A brief history and some advice -- 16. Case studies -- 17. Ethnography and ethnographic representation -- 18. Analyzing interpretive practice -- 19. Grounded theory: Objectivist and constructivist methods -- 20. Undaunted courage: Life history and the postmodern challenge -- 21. Testimonio, subalternity, and narrative authority -- 22. Participatory action research -- 23. Clinical research -- Part IV. Methods of collecting and analyzing empirical materials -- 24. The interview: From structured questions to negotiated text -- 25. Rethinking observation: From method to context -- 26. The interpretation of documents and material culture -- 27. Reimagining visual methods: Galileo to Neuromancer -- 28. Autoethnography, personal narrative, reflexivity: Researcher as subject -- 29. Data management and analysis methods -- 30. Software and qualitative research -- 31. Analyzing talk and text -- 32. Focus groups in feminist research -- 33. Applied ethnography -- Part V. The art and practices of interpretation, evaluation, and representation -- 34. The problem of criteria in the age of relativism -- 35. The practices and politics of interpretation -- 36. Writing: A method of inquiry -- 37. Anthropological poetics -- 38. Understanding social programs through evaluation -- 39. Influencing the policy process with qualitative research -- Part VI. The future of qualitative research -- 40. Qualitative inquiry: Tensions and transformations -- 41. The seventh moment: Out of the past.