Naturalistic Inquiry provides social scientists with a basic but comprehensive rationale for non-positivistic approaches to research.

Fourth generation evaluation represents a monumental shift in evaluation practice.

These works introduce framework that will allow scholars and students to interpret cutting edge work in the field of qualitative inquiry.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dealing with Empirical Materials and Interpretations focuses on the task of collecting, analysing and interpreting qualitative materials using document analysis, interviews, computers and visual materials.

In this volume the contributors locate the field, providing historical context and background on applied qualitative research, the 'self' and the 'other', and the politics and ethics of qualitative inquiry.

" "This text is designed for graduate students taking classes in social research methods and qualitative methods as well as researchers throughout the social sciences and in some fields within the humanities.

Reader outlining key developments in the recent history of interpretive social science methods.

In addition to the key principles of constructivist thought, the volume also contains an introduction to constructivism, an intellectual biography and complete bibliography of Guba’s work, and a case study using constructivism, showing ...

Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry, Third Edition, the second volume in the paperback version of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, 3rd Edition, consists of Part III of the handbook ("Strategies of Inquiry").